Load the agent guide via CLAUDE.md and lazy-load its runbooks - #33
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Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md, not AGENTS.md, so this repo's agent guide was never actually reaching a session. Add a root CLAUDE.md that imports it with @AGENTS.md. That alone would put the whole guide in context on every session, so the two sections that only matter during a specific task move to skills, which load on invocation instead: - .claude/skills/phase-loop/ — planning, implementing, the rubber-duck loop - .claude/skills/release/ — the release runbook Each section keeps a one-line stub in AGENTS.md naming the skill file, so a tool that only reads AGENTS.md can still follow the pointer. The golden-file trap stays in the stub verbatim — regenerating a golden for a version bump is a defect by definition, and phase 8's plan put it in the runbook precisely because it is the "fix" a contributor reaches for unprompted. Everything else stays always-loaded: determinism, layering, events, commands, schema discipline, frozen data, greenfield discipline, and the OGL/MIT split. No content was lost; the sections were relocated verbatim. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012jzfBee7CQ43JBTwVihSjS
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Claude Code reads
CLAUDE.md, notAGENTS.md— so this repo's agent guide was never actually reaching a session. This adds a rootCLAUDE.mdthat imports it (@AGENTS.md), then moves the task-specific sections into.claude/skills/so they load on invocation instead of sitting in context every session.Each migrated section keeps a one-line stub in
AGENTS.mdnaming the exact skill file, so a tool that only readsAGENTS.mdcan still follow the pointer — nothing is hidden, it just is not preloaded. Load-bearing rules (the ones that must fire unprompted) stayed in the stub or were never moved at all.No content was lost; migrated sections were relocated verbatim. Reviewed by diffing every distinctive phrase from each moved block against the new files.
https://claude.ai/code/session_012jzfBee7CQ43JBTwVihSjS