Memory files prime LLM style: the four-op audit and the deterministic-then-LLM pattern
Written with Claude. Every session loads the gotchas file, and the gotchas file has a style I kept needing to invoke /minto or ELI7 to break down Claude’s responses into plain language. Every session. Reliably. The root cause, I eventually understood, wasn’t the model: CLAUDE.md and the memory-bank files don’t just carry constraints, they prime the style the model writes back in. Dense comma-stacked gotcha bullets in, dense comma-stacked responses out. ...