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Claude.md file with general guidelines about our repo has worked extraordinarily good, without any external wrappers, harnesses or special prompts
throwaway7783 on Hacker News
In the thread “Agents that run while I sleep”
Helped: Simple English guidelines in a Claude.md file.
Got in the way: Occasional overly critical reviews.
… Claude Code is capable of planning, spawning sub-agents, writing tests and so on. Claude.md file with general guidelines about our repo has worked extraordinarily good, without any external wrappers, harnesses or special prompts. Even the MD file has no specific structure, just instructions or notes in English.