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brcmthrowawaytoday at 12:47 AM1 replyview on HN

Is CLAUDE.md required when claude has a --continue option?


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Zerottoday at 2:09 AM

I would recommend using it, yeah. You have limited context and it will be compacted/summarized occasionally. The compaction/summary will lose some information and it is easy for it to forget certain instructions you gave it. Afaik claude.md will be loaded into the context on every compaction which allows you to use it for instructions that should always be included in the context.