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Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by eterm »

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #18

Is anyone else just completely overwhelmed with the number of things you _need_ for claude code? Agents, sub agents, skills, claud.md, agents.md, rules, hooks, etc. We use Cursor where I work and I find it a good medium for still being in control and knowing what is happening with all of the changes being reviewed in an IDE. Claude feels more like a black box, and one with so many options that it's just overwhelming,…

This isn't necessary. Claude will read CLAUDE.md from both:

  1. Current directory ./CLAUDE.md
  2. User directory ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
I stick general preferences in what it calls "user memory" and stick project specific preferences in the working directory.

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by austinbaggio »

minimaxir wrote: post #19
JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #18

Is anyone else just completely overwhelmed with the number of things you _need_ for claude code? Agents, sub agents, skills, claud.md, agents.md, rules, hooks, etc. We use Cursor where I work and I find it a good medium for still being in control and knowing what is happening with all of the changes being reviewed in an IDE. Claude feels more like a black box, and one with so many options that it's just overwhelming,…

With Opus 4.5 in Claude Code, I'm doing fine with just a (very detailed) CLAUDE.md.

Do you find you want to share the .md with the teams you work with? Or is it more for your solo coding?

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by metadat »

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #18

Is anyone else just completely overwhelmed with the number of things you _need_ for claude code? Agents, sub agents, skills, claud.md, agents.md, rules, hooks, etc. We use Cursor where I work and I find it a good medium for still being in control and knowing what is happening with all of the changes being reviewed in an IDE. Claude feels more like a black box, and one with so many options that it's just overwhelming,…

Don't forget about the co-agents.. yeah.

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by austinbaggio »

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #18

Is anyone else just completely overwhelmed with the number of things you _need_ for claude code? Agents, sub agents, skills, claud.md, agents.md, rules, hooks, etc. We use Cursor where I work and I find it a good medium for still being in control and knowing what is happening with all of the changes being reviewed in an IDE. Claude feels more like a black box, and one with so many options that it's just overwhelming,…

It feels like Claude is taking more of the Android approach of a less opinionated, but more open stack, so people are bending it to the shape they want to match their workflow. I think of the amnesia problem as pretty agent-agnostic, though, knowing what happens while you're delivering product is more of an agent execution layer problem than a tool problem, and it gets bigger when you have swarms coordinating - Jaya wrote a pretty good article about this https://x.com/AustinBaggio/status/2004599657520123933?s=20

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by frumplestlatz »

austinbaggio wrote: post #13
coffeeboy27 wrote: post #12

What's the data retention/deletion policy and is there a self-hosted option planned? I'd prefer not to send proprietary code to third-party servers.

Honestly, very reasonable ask, you're not the first person to ask for a self-hosted version. We have a privacy policy we've drafted that is up-to-date with the current version of the product https://www.ensue-network.ai/privacy-policy . The project is still in alpha, so you could shape what we build next - what do you need to see, or what gets you comfortable sending proprietary code to other external services?

> what do you need to see, or what gets you comfortable sending proprietary code to other external services?

Honestly? It just has to be local.

At work, we have contracts with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google with isolated/private hosting requirements, coupled with internal, custom, private API endpoints that enforce our enterprise constraints. Those endpoints perform extensive logging of everything, and reject calls that contain even small portions of code if it's identified as belonging to a secret/critical project.

There's just no way we're going to negotiate, pay for, and build something like that for every possible small AI tooling vendor.

And at home, I feed AI a ton of personal/private information, even when just writing software for my own use. I also give the AI relatively wide latitude to vibe-code and execute things. The level of trust I need in external services that insert themselves in that loop is very high. I'm just not going to insert a hard dependency on an external service like this -- and that's putting aside the whole "could disappear / raise prices / enshittify at any time" aspect of relying on a cloud provider.

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by lukev »

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #18

Is anyone else just completely overwhelmed with the number of things you _need_ for claude code? Agents, sub agents, skills, claud.md, agents.md, rules, hooks, etc. We use Cursor where I work and I find it a good medium for still being in control and knowing what is happening with all of the changes being reviewed in an IDE. Claude feels more like a black box, and one with so many options that it's just overwhelming,…

A claude.md file will give you 90% of what you need.

Consider more when you're 50+ hours in and understand what more you want.

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by pigpop »

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #18

Is anyone else just completely overwhelmed with the number of things you _need_ for claude code? Agents, sub agents, skills, claud.md, agents.md, rules, hooks, etc. We use Cursor where I work and I find it a good medium for still being in control and knowing what is happening with all of the changes being reviewed in an IDE. Claude feels more like a black box, and one with so many options that it's just overwhelming,…

You don't need all that, just have Claude write the same documentation you would (should) write for any project. I find it best to record things chronologically and then have Claude do periodic reviews of the docs and update key design documents and roadmap milestones. The best part is you get a written record of everything that you can review when you need to remember when and why something changed. They also come in handy for plan mode since they act as a guide to the existing code.

The PMs were right all along!

Re: Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

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Post by [deleted] »

CPLX wrote: post #5

I absolutely love this concept! It's like the thing that I've been looking for my whole life. Well, at least since I've been using Claude Code, which is this year. I'm sold. With that said, I can't think of a way that this would work. How does this work? I took a very quick glance, and it's not obvious at first glance. The whole problem is, the AI is short on context, it has limited memory. Of course, you can store l…

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