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YesClaude · 17 Apr 2026

When I fixed this, it was like magic, working how I wanted again

JohnMakin on Hacker News

In the thread “Claude Opus 4.7”, replying to this comment

Helped: Auditing and fixing incorrect entries in memory and config files.

Got in the way: Agent wrote wrong memories and contradicted configuration files.

… The problem is, the few times I've noticed my agent getting "squirrely," some or a lot of the stuff in MEMORY.md was flat out wrong (the agent wrote down the wrong memory), confused or in direct contradiction with its CLAUDE.md, etc. When I fixed this, it was like magic, working how I wanted again. I now have a skill to periodically audit MEMORY.md and CLAUDE.md according to the conventions I've learned work best for me - which I suppose /dream is supposed to handle eventually, but you're kind of trusting it to audit its own memories, which have, at least to me, already proven to be unreliable. …