Standing rules the AI reads before it acts — a layered OS for how the assistant behaves in your world.
Standing rules the AI reads before it acts — a layered OS for how the assistant behaves in your world.
The real leverage isn't prompts, it's standing rules the AI reads before it acts. A layered CLAUDE.md — root to domain to subfolder — is an operating system for how the assistant behaves: HARD rules with the reason they exist (expensive to fix), obeyed every session. Rules are the wedge; everyone says 'data + AI', the missing word is rules.
Where it lives: SBM series article 2 (CLAUDE.md as Operating System).