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Hierarchical CLAUDE.md Configuration
From Anthropic's CCA Exam as a Field-Guide for Agentic Engineering — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley · ≈11:17
“So, Claude code has this has this concept of the Claude MD file, a markdown file, where you put all the things you wanted to know.”
“What Anthropic recommends is you have three levels of Claude.”
What’s in it
- Explains Claude Code's hierarchical CLAUDE.md rule-file system
- Shows three levels of config: project, folder, and directory
- Practical setup tip for controlling AI coding agent behavior
Clip transcript
Um Next scenario. Uh code generation with Claude. So, Claude code has this has this concept of the Claude MD file, a markdown file, where you put all the things you wanted to know. What Anthropic recommends is you have three levels of Claude. One that you have at the top level of your project, the other that you have in inside your sort of the project folder, and then within directories you can also specify. So, the idea is to have a hierarchical set of rules that that can then control how the system is going to respond. Okay.
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