I Rewrote My CLAUDE.md From Scratch

I Rewrote My CLAUDE.md From Scratch This is a first-person account of a CLAUDE.md rewrite. I had a 612-line file that I'd been adding to for fourteen months. The agent's behavior had been getting subtly worse for the last three of those — more clarifying questions, more ignored rules, more drift from the way I would have done things if I were doing them by hand. I decided the only fix was to delete the file and start over with a blank one. Here's what happened. Why I didn't just edit it The file