Quick, non-rhetorical sanity check, since you advocate passionately for just typing the same things into every session over and over.

You know the contents of AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md just get injected into your context window by the harness? And that it's functionally equivalent to typing the same thing into every session?

There's no difference between typing "keep dependencies out of User" at the beginning of every session, and putting that into AGENTS.md, other than wasting a bunch of time.

    Sure, maybe it misses it, then you can just tell it.

Re-doing that work after it gets things wrong is going to take roughly 1-3 orders of magnitude more tokens than including it in AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md.

Here's a good concrete example. I've caught Claude writing python scripts to parse JSON instead of simply using `jq`. I initially attempted to correct this by adding `jq` to my allow list, but it still always reached for Python scripting first, before eventually figuring out it could use `jq`. You think that burned a few extra tokens vs. just telling it `use jq to parse JSON` in AGENTS.md?