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How Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex actually load your project rules (and why yours get ignored)
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How Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex actually load your project rules (and why yours get ignored)

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Your rules file only grows. Here's how to find the rules that do nothing
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Your rules file only grows. Here's how to find the rules that do nothing

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AGENTS.md: how to write the one rules file most coding agents now read
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AGENTS.md: how to write the one rules file most coding agents now read

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Why your Cursor rules never fire: globs, alwaysApply, and description explained
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Why your Cursor rules never fire: globs, alwaysApply, and description explained

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What survives compaction in Claude Code — and how to keep your rules alive
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What survives compaction in Claude Code — and how to keep your rules alive

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What actually belongs in CLAUDE.md — and what to move to skills, hooks, or docs
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What actually belongs in CLAUDE.md — and what to move to skills, hooks, or docs

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Which CLAUDE.md Files Claude Code Actually Loads (and in What Order)
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Which CLAUDE.md Files Claude Code Actually Loads (and in What Order)

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Did Claude Code actually load your rules? /context, lazy loading, and the InstructionsLoaded hook
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Did Claude Code actually load your rules? /context, lazy loading, and the InstructionsLoaded hook

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AGENTS.md vs CLAUDE.md vs .cursorrules: what Cursor actually reads now (and in what order)
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AGENTS.md vs CLAUDE.md vs .cursorrules: what Cursor actually reads now (and in what order)

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CLAUDE.md @-imports: how paths resolve, how deep they go, and why yours silently did not load
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CLAUDE.md @-imports: how paths resolve, how deep they go, and why yours silently did not load

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We cut our CLAUDE.md from 548KB to 34KB: what loads when, measured — and the commit gate that keeps it small
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We cut our CLAUDE.md from 548KB to 34KB: what loads when, measured — and the commit gate that keeps it small

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