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December 2nd, 2025

If claude code sometimes skip CLAUDE.md file

I was reading this article: https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md and found there the following:

Source: https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md
Source: https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md

Then I was curious to find out more about this system-reminder and to identify the source for this assertion.

Seems like more sources points to the following article: https://medium.com/@outsightai/peeking-under-the-hood-of-claude-code-70f5a94a9a62 which seems to identify prompts that are send along with the data read by Claude Code from Claude.md.