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Show HN: Rules that stop AI coding agents from breaking working code
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Stop Your AI From Breaking Working Code Rules and prompts that keep Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex from wrecking things that already worked. Explanations kept to a minimum. 한국어 → The first two weeks feel like magic. Then the codebase grows past what the model can hold at once, and it starts fixing A while breaking B.

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Stop Your AI From Breaking Working Code Rules and prompts that keep Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex from wrecking things that already worked. Everything here is copy-paste. Explanations kept to a minimum. 한국어 → The first two weeks feel like magic. Then the codebase grows past what the model can hold at once, and it starts fixing A while breaking B. That isn't a skill problem. It's a structure problem — which means prompting harder won't fix it. Constraints will. The one thing to do tonight Create CLAUDE.md in your project root and paste this. Claude Code reads it automatically at the start of every conversation. (Cursor → .cursorrules, Codex/Copilot → AGENTS.md.

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