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YesClaude · 12 Mar 2026

I am literally right now tuning my PR, Claude instructions, and PR instructions to match our standards

colechristensen on Hacker News

In the thread “Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged”, replying to this comment

Helped: Tuning AGENTS.md and PR instructions to match organization standards.

Got in the way: Claude lowered PR rating because code was better than repo average.

… So this post is maybe a little bit over the top. I am literally right now tuning my PR, Claude instructions, and PR instructions to match our standards. Funny enough I'm having the opposite problem where Claude is lowering its rating of my PR because my testing, documentation, and error handling is better than the other code in the repository so it doesn't match and therefore gets a worse grade. …