Configuring Claude Code Memory

I set up Claude Code on this blog’s own repo - a root CLAUDE.md, a .claude/rules/ directory, skills under .claude/skills/ - and ended up cross-referencing it against the equivalent GitHub Copilot setup I’d built on a CDK project. Copilot centralises everything under .github/ and scopes by path through frontmatter. Claude Code works the opposite way: it walks the directory tree from wherever you launch it, loading any CLAUDE.md it finds along the way. ...

March 23, 2026 · 5 min · 908 words