Curing Claude Code Amnesia with Decision Logs

Top-Appeal4261 · reddit · 2026-07-11

The author instructs Claude Code in `CLAUDE.md` to append every "non-obvious" design choice to `DECISIONS.md` and read this file before any planning. This way, even if context compression occurs during long tasks, the model can reload the rationale behind previous trade-offs, preventing it from repeatedly suggesting rejected solutions. The author gave an example where, during a migration, it successfully avoided re-adding ORM calls that would cause locking issues.

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