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The 170k-Star CLAUDE.md File That Stops Claude Code From Over-Engineering

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Exact instruction

  1. Drop a CLAUDE.md in your project root with four rules: (
  2. Think before you code, (
  3. Keep it simple, (
  4. Only change what you were asked to, (
  5. Define what done looks like and loop until done.
  6. Comment "RULES" on the post to receive the exact GitHub repo and full install guide via DM.
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Comment "RULES" and I'll send you the exact CLAUDE.md file and the one-line install. Someone took Andrej Karpathy's notes on Claude Code problems and turned them into one CLAUDE.md file you drop in your project root. Four rules: think before you code, keep it simple, only change what you were asked to, and define what done looks like then loop until done. 170,000 stars on GitHub.