Track all agent decisions in a provenance file to stop Claude inventing phantom rules
nptacek · x · 2026-11-14
Users report Claude inventing "standing rules" that were never set. A practical fix being shared: instruct agents to track all project decisions in a file with provenance, since they often lose track of where ideas came from over time.
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