5 Reasons Claude Code Seems to Ignore Your CLAUDE.md
When Claude Code skips a rule you wrote in CLAUDE.md, the file is rarely broken. Usually the rule never loaded, lost to a conflicting rule, or was never something a context file could enforce. These are the five causes to check, in order. Claude Code loads CLAUDE.md and CLAUDE.local.md from the directory where the session starts and from every parent directory. A file in a sibling package does not apply just because it exists in the repository.
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