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skeledrewyesterday at 11:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

I copy a .claude/CLAUDE.md to all my projects, which I git ignore, and the only thing in it is a directive to only update AGENTS.md.


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Sha1rholderyesterday at 11:21 PM

Whenever you mention “CLAUDE.md” anywhere in your repo, Anthropic has achieved its goal. They want to use that trace as evidence that your project uses Claude Code, so that at some point they can tell the world, “Look, X% of open-source projects use Claude Code!” Maybe right before IPO.

postalcoderyesterday at 11:11 PM

Unfortunately, this doesn't work with CC's other features like the lazy loading of CLAUDE.md files in subdirectories.

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