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How consistently do you find that Claude Code follows your documentation references? Like you work on a CSS feature and it goes to ADDING_CSS.md? I run into issues where it sometimes skips my imperative instructions.


It's funny you mention this - for a while I was concerned that CC wasn't fetching the appropriate documentation related to the task at hand (coincidentally this was around Aug/Sept when Claude had some serious degradation issues [1]), so I started adding the following to the beginning of each specialized doc file:

  When this documentation is read, please output "** LOGGING DOCS READ **" to the console.

These days I do find that the TOC approach works pretty well though I'll probably swap them over to Skills to see if the official equivalent works better.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-...


For me, it’s pretty reliable until a chat grows too long and it drifts too far away from the start where it reviewed the TOC




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