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MixedClaude · 10 Mar 2026

When claude is doing a complex task, it will regularly lose track of the rules (in either the .rules stuff or CLAUDE.md) and break conventions

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In the thread “Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Loses track of rules and breaks conventions on complex tasks.

… Preplanning does not solve the problem they're describing. When claude is doing a complex task, it will regularly lose track of the rules (in either the .rules stuff or CLAUDE.md) and break conventions. It follows it most of the time, but not all of the time.