Add CLAUDE.md Bridge So Claude Code Actually Loads AGENTS.md - #1081
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Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md, not AGENTS.md, at all - confirmed against current official docs. This repo (and every fleet repo carrying AGENTS.md as its provider-agnostic instruction file, precisely so Codex, opencode, and Claude Code read the same rules with no per-provider duplication) never actually reached Claude Code sessions automatically: AGENTS.md only surfaced when an agent chose to read it mid-task, which is the reliability gap behind agents repeatedly skipping the local-strict-review Skill unless explicitly reminded. Adds a root CLAUDE.md using Claude Code's official @AGENTS.md import syntax (confirmed: works anywhere in the file, not just as the first line), a new spec/files.json baseline entry (verbatim, whole, appliesTo *, same shape as .markdownlint-cli2.jsonc), and updates to STANDUP.md's carry list, RESYNC.md's apply-order step 1 and guard- probe scope, and GOVERNANCE.md's own Repository Layout bullet list.
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New documentation text in STANDUP.md uses past tense contrary to the repo’s documented present-tense convention.
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Pull request overview
This PR adds a root CLAUDE.md that imports AGENTS.md via Claude Code’s @AGENTS.md syntax so Claude Code sessions reliably load the repo’s provider-agnostic instruction set, aligning Claude Code with the existing Codex/opencode workflow.
Changes:
- Add
CLAUDE.mdas a minimal Claude Code entry point that importsAGENTS.md(no duplicated rules). - Extend the carry baseline (
spec/files.json) soCLAUDE.mdpropagates across the fleet via existing resync/audit mechanisms. - Update standup/resync documentation and the repository layout list to include
CLAUDE.md.
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| File | Description |
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| CLAUDE.md | Adds Claude Code entry point importing AGENTS.md to ensure instructions load automatically. |
| spec/files.json | Adds CLAUDE.md to the baseline as a verbatim whole-file carry. |
| STANDUP.md | Updates instruction-set carry list and explains why CLAUDE.md is required for Claude Code. |
| RESYNC.md | Updates resync step ordering and guard probe guidance to include CLAUDE.md. |
| GOVERNANCE.md | Documents CLAUDE.md in the repo layout section. |
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In `@CLAUDE.md`:
- Around line 7-8: Update the rule-summary statement in CLAUDE.md to accurately
identify all canonical sources, including AGENTS.md, GOVERNANCE.md,
CODESTYLE.md, and WORKFLOW.md, or remove the summary so Claude Code relies on
imported AGENTS.md rules.
- Around line 8-10: Update the bridge-content rule in CLAUDE.md to prohibit
provider-specific rules or extra mutable content after the `@AGENTS.md` import,
while preserving the required explanatory paragraph verbatim and keeping the
file’s existing shared-content structure unchanged.
In `@RESYNC.md`:
- Line 74: Align the CLAUDE.md handling in the instruction-ordering guidance
with the actual carried-instruction-file-guard behavior: either add and
propagate an explicit safe-to-overwrite exemption for CLAUDE.md in the guard and
its generated copies, or remove the claim that the guard provides that
exemption.
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CodeRabbit and Qodo caught real problems on the first round:
- CLAUDE.md's paragraph both understated the rule map (omitted
CODESTYLE.md/WORKFLOW.md) and restated AGENTS.md's own
provider-agnostic/no-duplication policy, a cross-cutting-rule
duplication AGENTS.md's own opening line forbids. Trimmed to the
mechanical loading fact plus a pointer, matching GOVERNANCE.md's own
'carries no rule of its own' description of this file exactly.
- STANDUP.md's new bullet restated the same policy; trimmed to
operational facts, pointing at CLAUDE.md itself. Also fixed a
present-tense slip Copilot caught ('motivated' -> 'motivates').
- RESYNC.md overstated what carried-instruction-file-guard actually
says (it never names CLAUDE.md or defines an exemption for it);
reworded to state CLAUDE.md is simply outside that guard's scope.
- resync-a-repo/SKILL.md's own executable apply-order never mentioned
CLAUDE.md at all, so a Skill-driven resync would silently skip it.
Added it to step 1, regenerated the two mirrored copies.
Local-strict-review caught two more before push: step 3's wording
still made CLAUDE.md's re-vendor depend on a probe step 1 explicitly
exempts it from (fixed), and a line-wrap artifact from an earlier
edit (fixed).
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Qodo open findings 2 and 3 ("CLAUDE.md Restates Canonical Policy", "STANDUP.md Duplicates Provider Policy"): fixed. CLAUDE.md's paragraph is trimmed to the mechanical loading fact plus a pointer to AGENTS.md (matching GOVERNANCE.md's own 'carries no rule of its own' description of this file exactly), no longer asserting or restating the provider-agnostic/no-duplication policy itself. STANDUP.md's new bullet is trimmed the same way, pointing at CLAUDE.md itself instead of restating the rationale. Both addressed in commit 42a2301. |
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The change is self-contained and consistently updates the baseline, docs, and skill distributions without introducing behavioral risk beyond improved instruction loading.
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In `@RESYNC.md`:
- Line 74: Broaden the guard requirement in the instruction-set procedure to run
before every update to AGENTS.md, GOVERNANCE.md, CODESTYLE.md, and WORKFLOW.md,
not only before verbatim re-vendor operations; keep CLAUDE.md explicitly exempt
and preserve the guard contract reference in
.agents/skills/carried-instruction-file-guard/SKILL.md.
In `@STANDUP.md`:
- Line 131: Update the executable instruction list for the standup skill in
SKILL.md to include CLAUDE.md before AGENTS.md, and propagate the same ordering
change to all packaged copies of that skill. Preserve the existing instruction
sequence and wording aside from adding the required CLAUDE.md entry.
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…a splice CodeRabbit caught a real scope hole an earlier fix introduced: gating the carried-instruction-file-guard probe on 'any verbatim re-vendor' of the four instruction files silently excludes CODESTYLE.md and WORKFLOW.md, which are intent-fidelity and never re-vendored verbatim, so they'd never trigger the probe at all. Reworded both RESYNC.md and resync-a-repo/SKILL.md to gate on touching the file, not on the update being verbatim. Also: standup-a-repo/SKILL.md's own executable instruction-set step never mentioned CLAUDE.md, the standup equivalent of the resync-skill gap fixed earlier in this PR - added it, regenerated mirrors. Fixed a comma splice in STANDUP.md's CLAUDE.md bullet.
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The change is documentation and baseline plumbing only, and the new CLAUDE.md entry point is consistently wired through the spec and all skill distributions.
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Fix-up to #1081, found by the develop -> main promotion PR (#1077)'s fresh full-diff review. CLAUDE.md's intro paragraph and resync-a-repo/SKILL.md's step 1 both had a sentence hard-wrapped across physical lines mid-sentence, against this repo's prose convention (paragraphs and sentences stay on one unwrapped physical line, per .markdownlint-cli2.jsonc disabling MD013 for exactly this). Pure re-flow, no wording changed (verified: `git diff -w --word-diff` shows zero word-level differences). Ran local-strict-review before pushing: confirmed no wording changed, both new sentence/line joins read correctly, mirrors byte-identical. One informational note surfaced (not fixed here, correctly out of scope): the same wrap pattern is pervasive fleet-wide and deliberately unenforced (the sentence-split prose_lint rule is opt-in, same rationale as sentence-length) - not a regression this branch introduced.
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…ock, Hook-vs-Prose Criteria (#1091) ## Why #1073: an agent reused the maintainer's own primary hub checkout instead of a worktree, twice, despite having read the prose rule against it. #1083 generalizes the lesson (alongside a second, unrelated incident already fixed by PR #1081) into a maintainer design call: which behaviors need a mechanical hook, not just documented prose. Follows PR #1086 (the agent-safety spec restructure), authored against its new `host-setup/agent-safety/claude/` paths. ## What - **#1043** -- `host-setup/menu.sh`'s hub-cache lock covered only the fetch, not a concurrent session's use of the fetched tree. Extended to a reader/writer lock over the whole resolve-and-use span (`menu.ps1` gets the equivalent with a named mutex, since Windows has no shared-lock primitive to build a correct one cheaply). A pre-push review caught a self-deadlock this introduced (two fds on one lock file, treated as independent holders) and an EXIT-trap hang on interrupt; both fixed and verified by reproducing the exact hangs against a stubbed `git clone`, confirming no hang after the fix. - **#1076** -- tightened `resync-a-repo` and `repo-worktree` skill prose against reusing an existing on-disk checkout, the skill that was actually running during the #1073 incident. - **#1073** -- a new rule 6 in `gh-write-guard.py`: denies a mutating git operation (checkout, reset, add, commit, stash, rm, and more) run directly against a primary (non-worktree) checkout, with flag-based exemptions matching the documented base-clone cleanup step (`merge --ff-only`, a flagless checkout of an actual ref), a new escape-hatch env var, and ~30 new self-test cases. Two rounds of adversarial review found and fixed 13 real bugs/bypasses (a self-deadlock, several bypass shapes -- `bash -c` wrappers, `~`-paths, `--work-tree`, `GIT_WORK_TREE=`/`GIT_DIR=` prefixes, a pathspec-form checkout gap -- an inverted-intent escape- hatch footgun, and two regressions the fixes themselves introduced), each verified against a real git repository built during review, not just the offline self-test. - **#1083** -- a new `GOVERNANCE.md` bullet stating the criteria for when a rule earns a mechanical hook vs. staying prose, applied to close out all three of #1083's open questions explicitly. - Filled in `docs/host-setup.md` "Claude Code Worktree Access" (previously a stub), including a live-verified finding: Claude Code's own native worktree-isolation enforcement only engages once `EnterWorktree` actually runs, not from a plain `git worktree add` + `cd`. ## Verification - Full local gate set green: `ruff`, `mypy`, the 879-test `scripts/tests` suite, `spec/audit.py --selftest`, `gh-write-guard.py --selftest` (all ~50 cases), `test_install.py` (45 tests), `build_dist.py --check`, `repo_gate.py`, `prose_lint.py` (all rule sets), JSON validation, `spec/validate.py`, `docker_lint.py` (markdownlint, cspell, shellcheck, shfmt, PSScriptAnalyzer). - Every hook-rule fix and exemption independently verified live against real git repositories (a primary checkout + a linked worktree built during this work), not only the offline self-test seams. - The `menu.sh` deadlock fix verified by reproducing the exact pre-fix hang (`timeout` returning 124) and confirming the post-fix run completes, for the fetch path, the interrupt-then-cleanup path, and `--dry-run` creating zero host state. Refs #1073, #1076, #1043, #1083. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **Safety** - Added protection against accidental Git changes in primary checkouts during active tasks. - Improved worktree isolation with documented safe-operation exceptions. - Added safeguards for concurrent repository access, cleanup, and hub operations. - **Documentation** - Clarified setup, host verification, worktree attachment, permissions, and safety requirements. - Updated guidance for supported coding environments and audit procedures. - **Maintenance** - Refreshed the skills package source digest. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Root cause of a recurring complaint: local-strict-review (and other Skills/rules) not firing reliably unless explicitly told to. Confirmed against current official Claude Code docs: Claude Code reads
CLAUDE.md, notAGENTS.md, at all. This repo (and every fleet repo, per the same convention) carriesAGENTS.mdas its provider-agnostic instruction file specifically so Codex, opencode, and Claude Code all read the same rules with no per-provider duplication - but that design silently failed for Claude Code specifically, sinceAGENTS.mdnever reached a Claude Code session's context automatically. It only surfaced when an agent chose to read it mid-task, which is exactly the unreliable path this fix closes.Fix: a root
CLAUDE.mdusing Claude Code's official@AGENTS.mdimport syntax (confirmed: the import works anywhere in the file, not only as the first line - kept after an H1 heading to satisfy MD041). No duplicated content, one import line plus a short paragraph explaining why, matching the fleet's own don't-duplicate-per-provider design.Also:
spec/files.jsonbaseline entry (fidelity: verbatim,whole: true,appliesTo: "*"), same shape as.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc(fleet-generic, no governed per-repo divergence), soresync-a-repo/audit-a-repopropagate it to every fleet repo over time.STANDUP.md's "carry the instruction set" list andRESYNC.md's "apply, in this order" step 1 both now nameCLAUDE.mdalongsideAGENTS.md/GOVERNANCE.md/CODESTYLE.md/WORKFLOW.md, with an explicit carve-out from thecarried-instruction-file-guardskill's probe (that guard is for mixed verbatim+intent content;CLAUDE.mdcarries none by design, same exemption.markdownlint-cli2.jsoncalready has).GOVERNANCE.md's own "Repository Layout" bullet list gains the new root file.Scope note: this fixes the hub itself. Every other fleet repo picks this up at its own next
resync-a-repo/audit-a-repopass via the new baseline entry, per the existing rollout mechanism - not a manual per-repo sweep in this PR.Local-strict-review dogfooded across two rounds on this branch (findings from round 1 - a missing
GOVERNANCE.mdbullet, an over-broad guard-probe sentence that would have swept in the new exempt file - fixed before round 2 confirmed clean).Summary by CodeRabbit
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