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Free tool

Give Claude your house rules

Claude reads one file before it touches your project, and if you have not written it, Claude makes up its own rules. This builds you that file. Answer what you can, skip what you do not know, and download it at the end. Everything happens on this page, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

You do not need to know how to code to use this. The last question tells you where to put the file.

Your project
How you run it

If Claude ever told you to type something to see your project working, put it here. If it never did, skip this whole section. It costs you nothing to leave blank.

How Claude should treat you

Tick anything you want. Each one turns into a real instruction in your file, not a one-liner.

How hard Claude should check its own work

This is the part most people skip, and it is the part that saves you. Claude sounds equally confident whether it is right or wrong.

Testing

A test is a bit of code that checks your code still works, so a fix in one place does not quietly break another. Pick what fits.

Hard limits

Your file

This updates as you answer. Nothing here leaves your browser.


        

          
          
        

      

    


    

      
Where the file goes

      
Download it, then put it in your project folder. The same folder you point Claude at, not a subfolder. The file has to be named exactly CLAUDE.md, capital letters and all.

      
If that sounds like a lot, there is an easier way. Copy it instead, then paste the whole thing to Claude and say: save this as CLAUDE.md in the top folder of my project. It will put it in the right place.

      
Claude reads it fresh at the start of every session, so you only do this once. Then add a line to it every time you catch yourself correcting the same thing twice. That is the whole trick.