Claude Code loads modular rule files from ~/.claude/rules/ (user scope,
recursive, markdown, optional paths: frontmatter for lazy path-scoped
loading — stable, symlink-supported). The repo had no rules/ at all, so
the ctx7 setup had created ~/.claude/rules as a REAL directory outside
version control — invisible to the repo, unreproducible on a new machine.
- rules/README.md — doctrine: one rule per file; paths:-scoped extraction
is the token win, always-on doctrine stays in CLAUDE.md
- link.sh — rules added to the symlinked-dirs loop
- .gitignore — rules/context7.md ignored (machine-owned: `ctx7 setup`
(re)writes it, same treatment as skills/find-docs/)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XpphkdTosUzokBDNG7PToS
Bastien Chanot