Expand CLAUDE.md with coding and behavioral guidelines - #17
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Added behavioral guidelines for LLM coding practices.
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This PR expands CLAUDE.md by adding a new “For Agents” section that documents behavioral guidelines intended to reduce common LLM-assisted coding mistakes in this repository.
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- Added a “For Agents” section describing principles like thinking before coding, simplicity-first implementation, surgical edits, and goal-driven verification.
- Included example success-criteria planning format for multi-step tasks.
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| VS Code extension that surfaces the Hermes AI agent as a sidebar chat panel, communicating via ACP (JSON-RPC 2.0 over stdio subprocess). | ||
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| ## For Agents | ||
| Behavioral guidelines for you to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. |
| - No features beyond what was asked. | ||
| - No abstractions for single-use code. | ||
| - No "flexibility" or "configurability" that wasn't requested. | ||
| - No error handling for impossible scenarios. |
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Added behavioral guidelines for LLM coding practices.
This pull request adds a new section to the
CLAUDE.mdfile, providing behavioral guidelines for agents to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. The guidelines emphasize caution, simplicity, minimalism, and goal-driven development, aiming to improve code quality and maintainability.Guidelines for agent behavior: