Claude Code treats CLAUDE.md as context, not enforced configuration, so a rule written there can lose to the task in front of it. Here's what does enforce one, from permission rules to a PreToolUse hook you write yourself to AgentTrail Guard, tested on a real --force-reset.
We asked Claude Code to split a column and just get the schema synced. It backed up the database, edited the schema, hit a Prisma error, and decided to wipe the database. Here's what that command would have done, and why AgentTrail Guard stopped it before it ran.
Coding agents don't remember your team's corrections. The same deprecated API, the weakened test, the wrong logger come back every session. The fix isn't a better memory. It's catching each repeat as it recurs and enforcing it outside the model.
