No
It's impossible to know when or if one of them gets read, and what random stale effect, when it does decide to read it, has now been triggered
jarjoura on Hacker News
In the thread “Claude Code Remote Control”, replying to this comment
Got in the way: Unpredictable CLAUDE.md reading and stale effects caused confusion and maintenance burden.
… Its worst feature (to me at least), is the, "CLAUDE.md"s sprinkled all over, everywhere in our repository. It's impossible to know when or if one of them gets read, and what random stale effect, when it does decide to read it, has now been triggered. Yes, I know, I'm responsible for keeping them up to date and they should be part of any PR, but claude itself doesn't always even know it needs to update any of them, because it decided to ignore the parent CLAUDE.md file.