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500 Lines of Claude Code Rules Ignored—Until I Weaponized Hooks

Claude Code devoured my 500-line rulebook, then spat out violations. Hooks changed that—now it obeys, every time.

DevTools Feed Apr 07, 2026 4 min read

Claude Code editor with session-start hook output and enforced checklist table

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Claude Code ignores CLAUDE.md rules due to helpfulness bias—hooks make them unbreakable. 𝕏
Use session-start.py and user-prompt-submit.py to inject data and force protocols. 𝕏
Hooks signal the future: Event-driven layers over LLMs for reliable AI dev. 𝕏

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