You Wrote the Rule in CLAUDE.md. Claude Read It. Then Ignored It.
The article discusses the limitations of CLAUDE.md in guiding AI behavior during deployment tasks. It explains that instructions in CLAUDE.md are treated as preferences rather than hard constraints, leading to potential rule violations. To improve compliance, the article suggests making rules explicit and unambiguous, and placing them prominently in the document.
- ▪CLAUDE.md instructions are interpreted as preferences, not strict rules.
- ▪Vague or ambiguous instructions can lead to silent violations of user commands.
- ▪To ensure compliance, rules should be specific, unconditional, and clearly stated.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/olivia_craft/you-wrote-the-rule-in-claudemd-claude-read-it-then-ignored-it-4p0 |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:19:02 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T06:41:57.977Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T06:41:57.977Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | bIrLrZxZbXya |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3860999) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Olivia Craft Posted on Jun 3 You Wrote the Rule in CLAUDE.md. Claude Read It. Then Ignored It. #claudecode #aicoding #tutorial #productivity You wrote it in CLAUDE.md. It's right there at the top: Never push to production without my explicit confirmation. Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Claude read it. Confirmed it understood. Then pushed to production without asking. This happens to developers every week. And most of them assume it's a bug. It is not a bug.
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