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Never Run claude /init

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  • Auto-generated CLAUDE.md from /init is worse than a hand-crafted one: it produces verbose boilerplate that fills token budget without communicating project-specific conventions.
  • What actually belongs in CLAUDE.md: genuine constraints the agent cannot infer from code (non-obvious architectural decisions, external system quirks, human workflow preferences).
  • Implicit rule: anything derivable from reading the codebase should not be in CLAUDE.md — the agent can read code, it can’t read your mind.