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fix(launch): agents no longer load ancestor CLAUDE.md files (v0.469.5) - #899
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The default data home sits inside the checkout, so Claude Code's upward CLAUDE.md walk pulled the repo's ~83k-char maintainer notes into every agent — on globex that pushed qa past the 150k instruction budget. claude-launch.sh now emits claudeMdExcludes for every ancestor of the agent folder (logical + physical path). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Claude Code walks up from the cwd loading every ancestor CLAUDE.md. The default data home (
./data) is inside the software checkout, so every agent on such a box also loaded the repo's ~83k-char maintainer CLAUDE.md. Live on globex:2 instruction files add up to 181.2k chars, over the 150.0k-char total limit(qa's own 98.4k + the repo's 82.8k).terminal/claude-launch.shnow writesclaudeMdExcludesinto the session's--settingsfile for each ancestor'sCLAUDE.md/CLAUDE.local.md/.claude/CLAUDE.md/.claude/rules/**, both logical and physical path. Paths with JSON/glob-significant characters are skipped.Verified (claude 2.1.322): a planted ancestor instruction is followed without the setting and absent with it; the agent's own CLAUDE.md still loads; the
/tmp→/private/tmpsymlink case is covered.npm run test:governance100 suites green.🤖 Generated with Claude Code