CLAUDE.md examples from real projects

How real projects brief Claude Code: the commands, conventions and warnings they put in CLAUDE.md.

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Lesani

LesaniCLAUDE.md

skills

Lesani/skills/CLAUDE.md

Skills are organized into bucket folders under skills/: Every skill in engineering/, productivity/, or misc/ must have a reference in the top-level README.md and an entry in .claude-plugin/plugin.json. Skills in personal/, in-progress/, and deprecated/ must not appear in either. Each skill entry in the top-level README.md must link the skill name to its SKILL.md. Each bucket folder has a README.md that lists every skill in the bucket with a one-line description, with the skill name linked to its SKILL.md.

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CLAUDE.md vs AGENTS.md

About CLAUDE.md

What is CLAUDE.md?

A file Claude Code reads at the start of every session. It holds the commands, conventions and warnings the agent needs for this project.

Where does it go?

At the repository root. Claude Code also reads CLAUDE.md files in subdirectories when it works there.

What should it contain?

Build and test commands, the project's layout, conventions that aren't obvious from the code, and mistakes to avoid. Short files tend to work better than long ones.

CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md?

Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md; most other agents read AGENTS.md. Many projects keep one and point the other at it.