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p1anecrazy 43 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Programmers will document for Claude, but not for ...

I understand the author wants to add it every time as a signature, and having claude do it doesn‘t fulfill the purpose

zahlman 42 days ago [–]

I meant: why tell Claude to edit CLAUDE.md to add the "don't add a signature" rule, instead of just writing a "don't add a signature" rule into CLAUDE.md directly? The necessary rule can't be much longer than the prompt generating it, surely.

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