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When working with a coding agent, a…

When working with a coding agent, a great periodic housekeeping task is to ask it to evaluate the codebase against the principles and values you've laid out in your CLAUDE/AGENTS/RULES files.

Agents frequently violate one's rules while coding, but will also spot those deviations after the fact if asked.

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