Comment by astrostl

Having been through cycles of manual writing with '#' and having it do it itself, it seems to have been a push on efficacy while spending less effort and getting less frustrated. Hard to quantify except to say that I've had great results with it. I appreciate the spirit of OP's, "CLAUDE.md is the highest leverage point of the harness, so avoid auto-generating it" but you can always ask Claude to tighten it up itself too.