Skills2026-03-16 · source-backed
CLAUDE.md Primacy/Recency Anchoring.
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Duplicate your 3 most critical rules at both top and bottom of the file. Trim to ~30 lines. Reframe negations as affirmative directives. Move unbreakable rules into PreCommit hooks instead of text. DEV Community
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