reconcile-claude-md

name	reconcile-claude-md
description	Update the project's CLAUDE.md to match its current structure and conventions.
argument-hint	[extra guidance or areas to focus on]

Update the project's CLAUDE.md to match its current structure and conventions.

Goals

• Delete guidance about structure or conventions that no longer exist
• Update outdated commands, paths, and names
• Add guidance for conventions Claude can't derive from the code

Current CLAUDE.md

cat CLAUDE.md

$ARGUMENTS

Workflow

1. If the project has no CLAUDE.md, suggest /init and stop
2. Break CLAUDE.md into individual claims: commands, paths, tool choices, workflow rules, style rules. One claim per bullet
3. Verify each claim against the repo:
   • Commands: confirm the script, target, or binary exists (package.json scripts, Makefile targets, lockfiles). Don't run mutating commands
   • Paths and names: confirm the files and directories exist
   • Conventions: sample a few recent source files and check they follow it
4. Reconcile the project structure section (see "Project structure section")
5. Explore for undocumented conventions worth recording: tool choices not implied by config files, commands with non-obvious flags, layout rules, gotchas a newcomer would trip on
6. Edit CLAUDE.md: delete stale claims, fix outdated ones, add missing guidance. Match the file's existing structure and tone, and admit only facts that pass "What belongs"
7. Report each deletion, fix, and addition with the evidence for it. Flag claims you couldn't verify instead of guessing

Project structure section

CLAUDE.md should have a shallow tree-style code block of the layout:

• Annotate each entry with a one-line purpose comment. The comments are the value; an unannotated listing is derivable and doesn't belong
• Keep it shallow: top-level directories and key files. Collapse directories with uniform contents into one glob entry (e.g. **/<name>/) annotated with the pattern its contents follow
• Add the section if missing. Prune entries that no longer exist, rename moved ones, and add new key entries

What belongs

CLAUDE.md earns its tokens only with facts Claude can't cheaply derive:

• Keep: the annotated structure tree, tool and command choices among alternatives, conventions not enforced by tooling, invisible constraints (deploy quirks, protected files, ordering requirements)
• Cut: unannotated file listings, anything a config file already states, lint rules the linter enforces, standard tool usage

These aren't exhaustive. Reason from first principles when none fits cleanly.