Developer measures productivity value of Claude.md, skills and hooks setup

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A developer shared a personal experiment measuring the practical value of their Claude.md configuration, skills, and hooks setup. The findings were published as a GitHub project called 'config-drift-checker' by user jameskomo. The post gained minimal traction on Hacker News, receiving 4 points and 1 comment. The project appears to focus on quantifying how much custom AI configuration contributes to developer workflow efficiency.

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