Specification · Instruction convention · Project instructions
CLAUDE.md
Claude Code's documented Markdown convention for persistent project and user instructions.
- Status
- Vendor-specific
- Version
- Rolling / unversioned
- Steward
- Anthropic
- Licenses
- Unclear or unresolved terms
- Standardizes
- Where Claude Code discovers project memory, user instructions, imports, and directory-scoped guidance inside its own product ecosystem.
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