CLAUDE.md Category Error (Handbook vs Lock)

Description

Community-articulated architectural framing (Yurukusa, April 2026) that CLAUDE.md rules are advisory preference statements injected as system-prompt text, NOT permission boundaries. The model reads them, forms intent to follow, but long-session context decay, subtask context dominance, and in-context 'reasonable judgment' overrides can all cause violation. Only hooks (exit-code gated) provide hard enforcement. The distinction is a category error: CLAUDE.md is a company handbook; hooks are door locks.

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