fix: CLAUDE.md tells agent to update itself instead of AGENTS.md#168
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CLAUDE.md was telling the agent to "update CLAUDE.md files" with discovered patterns, but CLAUDE.md IS the prompt file for Claude Code mode — the agent would corrupt its own instructions. Changed to reference AGENTS.md like prompt.md already does.
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This is an important fix. Having the agent write newly discovered patterns back into the same file that defines its live instruction authority is one of those bugs that looks harmless until a few runs later, when the prompt surface has quietly turned into an append-only memory dump. The part I like here is not just changing the target file, but restoring a cleaner separation:
Once those collapse into one file, instruction drift gets very hard to debug because the tool starts mutating the thing that explains its own behavior. For loop-style agent systems, that separation usually matters more than it first appears. |
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CLAUDE.md was telling the agent to "update CLAUDE.md files" with discovered patterns — but CLAUDE.md IS the prompt file for Claude Code mode. The agent would append patterns to its own instruction file, potentially corrupting the prompt on subsequent runs.
`prompt.md` and `AGENTS.md` both consistently reference AGENTS.md as the place to store patterns. Changed CLAUDE.md to match so both tool modes point to the same target file.