RRulestackinrulestack.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 5 min readWhich CLAUDE.md Files Claude Code Actually Loads (and in What Order)Half of the "Claude Code is ignoring my rules" reports I see have the same root cause: the rule lives in a file Claude Code never loaded. The memory system reads a specific set of files, in a specific00
RRulestackinrulestack.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 6 min readWhat actually belongs in CLAUDE.md — and what to move to skills, hooks, or docsYour CLAUDE.md only grows. Every incident adds a rule, every preference becomes a paragraph, and six months in you have a file that reads like a wiki — and an agent that follows maybe half of it. The 11R
RRulestackinrulestack.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 10 min readClaude Code hooks not firing: how to verify what actually ranA hook that silently does nothing and a hook that isn't configured look identical from inside a session. Claude Code deliberately keeps successful hooks quiet — the transcript shows nothing when a hoo00
RRulestackinrulestack.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 6 min readToo many Claude Code skills? How the listing budget decides which descriptions Claude seesYou add a skill. It triggers. You add ten more, and the first one quietly stops firing — same file, same description, same request. Nothing errored, so there is nothing to fix. This is not a prompt pr00
RRulestackinrulestack.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 5 min readYour Claude Code skill's description is being cut: the 1,536-char cap and the shared listing budgetYou wrote a skill. The description is clear. You ask for exactly the thing it does, and Claude reaches for something else. Before you rewrite the description a fourth time, check whether Claude ever s00