Why Claude Code Ignores Your CLAUDE.md (And How...

If you've ever noticed Claude Code ignoring rules you carefully wrote in your CLAUDE.md, you're not imagining it. I spent hours adding instructions to my config file, only to watch Claude keep doing the exact things I told it not to. After digging into how Claude Code actually processes CLAUDE.md, I found four specific reasons this happens. 1. Your file is too long Claude Code starts selectively ignoring content after around 80 lines. This isn't a bug — it's a fundamental limitation of how LLMs