claude-md

CLAUDE.md is delivered as a user message after the system prompt, not as configuration. It is read and weighed, never enforced — which is why a rule that must hold every time belongs in a hook or a permission, and why the goal here is compliance, not completeness. A short file that gets followed beats a full one that gets ignored.

What Loads, and When

Routing and trimming decisions are wrong whenever the loading model is wrong. Establish this first.