RRulestackinrulestack.hashnode.dev·1h ago · 6 min readYour rules file only grows. Here's how to find the rules that do nothingThis is part 3 of a series on project rules for AI coding agents. Part 1 covered how Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex load your rules. Part 2 covered enforcing rules with hooks. This one covers the part00
RRulestackinrulestack.hashnode.dev·21h ago · 6 min readYour CLAUDE.md says "always run tests" — hooks are how you actually mean itThere's a category error hiding in most agent configs: treating a rules file as an enforcement mechanism. It isn't one. CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .cursor/rules — these are advisory context. The model read00
RRulestackinrulestack.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 5 min readHow Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex actually load your project rules (and why yours get ignored)Every AI coding tool now has a "project rules" file. Cursor has .cursor/rules, Claude Code has CLAUDE.md, OpenAI Codex has AGENTS.md. Teams write them once, watch the agent ignore half of it, and conc00