What This Section Is Really Doing
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What This Section Is Really Doing
Rules and boundaries serve different purposes.
Rules calibrate Claude’s judgment. They encode how you prefer to work so Claude doesn’t have to guess. The more specific, the better — “use conventional commits” is more useful than “write good commit messages.”
Boundaries define the edges of autonomous action. They answer the question: where does Claude need to stop and check before proceeding? The answer to that question is different for everyone, but everyone has an answer.
Together, they give Claude a working model of how you operate — which means fewer corrections, fewer second-guesses, and more output you can actually use.
This section evolves. Every time Claude does something that requires a correction, add the rule that would have prevented it.