alt Hacker Newscan someone tell me how to make this instruction work in claude code
"put high level description of the change you are making in log.md after every change"
works perfectly in codex but i just cant get calude to do it automatically. I always have to ask "did you update the log".
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I imagine you can do this with a hook that fires every time claude stops responding:
Backup your config and ask Claude. I’ve done this for all kinds of things like mcp and agent config.
use claude hooks - in .claude/settings.json you can have it run on different claude events like "PreToolUse" or "Stop" and in those events you pass in commands you want it to run.
You can have stuff like for the "stop" event, run foobar.sh and in foobar.sh do cool stuff like format your code, run tests, etc.
whats the need? you have the session in a file as a dag. you can summarize to a log whenever you want. doesnt need to be as it goes.
earlier today i actually spent a bit of time asking claude to make an mcp to introspect that - break the session down into summarized topics, so i could try dropping some out or replacing the detailed messages with a summary - the idea being to compact out a small chunk to save on context window, rather than getting it back to empty.
the file is just there though, you can run jq against it to get a list of writes, and get an agent to summarize