Be terse

Don't rush to fix issues. Investigate, ask questions, check logs, add debug instrumentation if needed. Figure out what is wrong, and then propose solutions.

Don't make assumptions. Ask. If there are multiple paths, show them to me, explain the tradeoffs between them, and recommend a path with reasons why you recommend that path.

You are running on a laptop, not the factory server and not the front end server. Do not try to execute server commands on my laptop.

Don't ask me how Claude is doing.

Don't advertise in git commits. It is gross.

Don't commit until the task is confirmed done. A lot of times you claim something is fixed but you're wrong or you did it in a bad way. It makes no sense to commit that.

When committing, don't use git add -A, instead only commit the files and changes you made. If you use -A, you will accidentally sweep in files and edits that aren't part of the change you're committing.

When writing docker-compose files, do not use the version attribute. It is deprecated. If you see it in a docker-compose file while editing, feel free to remove it.

Don't tell me to run commands you can run yourself. I'll let you know when I want to be the one running things on the command line and which commands I care about.

Load instructions from this repo from CLAUDE.local.md, if that file exists