chore: ignore local Claude Code agent file #4524
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I've never used claude code! Out of curiosity could you share what kind of stuff you put in your agents file? I gotta give it a try perhaps
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I recommend relying on ~/.gitignore committed to a dotfiles repo to ignore files created [edit: or consumed] by one's choice of development tooling. |
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Why this should be merged
For developers that use Claude Code (like myself), having an agent file greatly improves the context that Claude Code has and leads to much better prompt results. The Claude Code best practices page suggests that for agent files not meant to be shared, you should add
CLAUDE.local.mdto your.gitignore- doing this allows the following:How this works
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CLAUDE.local.mdto.gitignoreHow this was tested
N/A
Need to be documented in RELEASES.md?
No