Claude Code settings.json: Which File Actually Wins
A measured precedence ladder for Claude Code settings, plus the discovery rule that quietly disables a monorepo config and the malformed file nobody warns you about.
Sep 312 min read
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Claude Code Not Following Instructions: A 93-Article Audit
Rules backed by a failing gate: 0 violations in 93 articles. Rules that exist only as sentences: 92. We re-measured a year of the same corpus to find out what changed.
Sep 211 min read
Claude Code Safe Mode: What It Turns Off, Measured
We measured --safe-mode, --restricted and --bare on one machine. Safe mode removes your config and nothing else — the flag that removes capability is a different one.
Sep 211 min read
Claude Code Permissions: Allow, Deny, and Ask Rules
A comprehensive guide to Claude Code permissions, tool rule schemas (allow, deny, ask), settings hierarchy precedence, glob matchers, and /permissions commands.
Sep 112 min read
Claude Code Session Management: Resume, Continue, and Fork
How Claude Code manages session state, command line flags (-c, --continue, --resume), session forking, multi-terminal concurrency, and prompt caching economics on resume.
Sep 111 min read
Claude Code Checkpoints: What Rewind Can and Cannot Restore
What a checkpoint is on disk, how much of a session it covers, and the measured gap between what rewind restores and what your working tree actually changed.
Aug 3112 min read
Claude Code Clear Context: What /clear Actually Removes
What /clear removes, what it leaves on disk, and the measured floor a cleared session starts from — across 165 transcripts and 16 releases.
Aug 3111 min read
Where Does Claude Code Store History? A Measured Tour
The full ~/.claude layout measured on a working machine: what is in the .jsonl transcripts, how project directory names are built, and what a purge leaves behind.
Aug 3112 min read