claude-config
CLAUDE.md2 starsChanged 15 days agoMITView on GitHub
In this repository7 other files it gives its agents.
- restore-sessionsSkill
- review-skillSkill
- run-agentSkill
- test-speedupSkill
- weekly-roundupSkill
- write-readmeSkill
- write-reportSkill
The file
We split this CLAUDE.md into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 2
Write in plain, direct language.
- Distinctive: line 6
Always quote URLs and paths in shell commands to avoid word-splitting.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 26,980 CLAUDE.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Communication Style
Write in plain, direct language. No startup/consulting jargon ('levers', 'happy to dig into', 'unlock', 'double-click'). State what happened, what it costs, and what to do next.
Give every clock time in US Eastern time, never UTC (logs and date -u are UTC; convert first).
Shell Conventions
- Always quote URLs and paths in shell commands to avoid word-splitting.
- Exclude large data files from grep/search (e.g.
--exclude=*.txt --exclude-dir=data); never scan multi-MB dictionaries. ~/.claudeconfig files are symlinks into the git repo named byrepoin~/.claude/claude-config.json(the clone chosen at install); commit and push changes there.
Machine-Specific Notes
@~/.claude/CLAUDE.local.md
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