feat(claude): manage the global Claude Code instructions - #86
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~/.claude/CLAUDE.md was machine-local, so every machine drifted and each new session had to be told the same rules again. Bring it under chezmoi: style (short sentences, one per bullet), questions (read the docs first, never re-ask what they answer), and authority (how a session reports a block, what it may do unasked, what needs me first). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VUd2Wv3nkSBpWgYBK6yhfh
Sessions kept stopping at "you can push and open a PR", which is the part they can do. Make it explicit: branches, commits, pushes and opening the pull request are already authorised; only merging needs Matt. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VUd2Wv3nkSBpWgYBK6yhfh
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Sep 20, 2026
…e to drive From Matt's review of #86: - Replace the "load bearing" ban with grounding terms in the repo's glossary, in style and before asking questions. - Merging is his alone, stated as such. - Test VMs exist to be driven: installing builds, changing nix.conf, systemd units and sudoers, and creating or destroying the VM are all authorised. - Deleting is authorised for anything living only in a test environment. - Ask-first now covers production and shared machines, not test ones. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VUd2Wv3nkSBpWgYBK6yhfh
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~/.claude/CLAUDE.mdunder chezmoi asdot_claude/CLAUDE.md, so every machine gets the same rules instead of each session being told them again.What the file says
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Three things were repeated in nearly every session: the style, asking what the documentation already answered, and stopping short of the work that was already authorised. They now live in one file that every session inherits.
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chezmoi statusclean; source and live copy match.chezmoi apply --dry-runtouches this file only../tests/test.sh quickpasses.https://claude.ai/code/session_01VUd2Wv3nkSBpWgYBK6yhfh