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Personal Preferences in CLAUDE.local.md

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Personal Preferences in CLAUDE.local.md

A teammate who's new to the codebase wants the agent to explain more as it goes. That's a personal preference, so it goes in CLAUDE.local.md, which stays out of git. But Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when the project has no CLAUDE.md or CLAUDE.local.md, so the moment the teammate adds their own…

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