Netflix accidentally shipped a Claude.md file

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7 points·Ozzie_osman··6 comments

Agent-related files should've been dot-files at least to minimize human error. In fact, I'd been discussing: shouldn't agent instructions exist on a per-developer basis, and thus be an IDE setting for each individual, removed from the repository itself? Agent instructions don't add content to the source code, after all. It's like additional READMEs, but we already have a README.

Not really, the closest analogy: Makefile or .editorconfig - it's created for a tool, committed on purpose.

What .editorconfig has in common with CLAUDE.md and similar files, is that they should be shared among the team.

Individual guidelines can live in a dot-prefixed subdirectory or the users $HOME.

This is what they already provide.

So it's possible (but not necessary) to add personal pre-prompts, but the shared best-practises and, more importantly, learnings, can be comitted and pushed.

What's exposed on a web server is a different topic, and when that is your repo's root dir, you've done something wrong either way.

Yee but screen on Reddit looks like a diff from repository... a did check it again and it looks like a fake:)

Hah I don't really trust these "accidental leaks"...

It's an expected consequence of using slop-generating service to write the code for you. Eventually issues slip through and pile up, leading to all kinds of issues including leaks.

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