Claude skips your rules. One file is why.

Claude skips your rules. One file is why. Read time: 3 minutes You wrote "never push without a review" into CLAUDE.md. Claude pushed. So you added a line, then another. The file is 380 lines now and the model follows less of it than it did at 40. CLAUDE.md is context, not configuration.Anthropic's docs say it in those words. It arrives as a message after the system prompt, with no guarantee of strict compliance. The file is not broken. You have been asking it to do a job it was never built...