Does anyone else struggle with getting Claude to follow even the simplest commands in CLAUDE.md? I’ve completely give up on maintaining it because there’s a coin flip chance it disregards even the simplest instructions. For instance, (after becoming increasingly exasperated and whittling it down over and over), my CLAUDE file now has a single instruction, which says that any ai generated one-off script should be named <foo>.aigen.ts, and I can’t get Claude to follow something as simple as that! It does sometimes, but half the time it disregards the instructions.

I use Claude all the time, and this is probably my biggest issue with it. I just workaround by manually supplying context in prompts, but it’s kind of annoying to do so.

Does anyone else struggle with this or am I just doing something horribly wrong?