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At the top of Claude.md put a few lines where two "people" ask and answer a couple of questions. Very tersely.


Examples? Do you use this pattern?


I’m not the one you replied to so I can’t give examples of that, but it is remarkable how much you can guide the output with claude.md.

I wrote in mine that I don’t really care that much about what it has to say, it should be concise and avoid unnecessary prose, and always lean on sharing relevant passages from the actual code with file names and line numbers and it helped my sanity a lot.

Is the code it’s quoting 100% accurate? I don’t know because I don’t double check it all. But I don’t feel like I’m losing my mind anymore and the stuff I have double checked was correct.




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