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by giancarlostoro 1 hour ago
> It's harder than you'd imagine. Hell, my CLAUDE.md says not to push changes without asking me, and it still tries.

Is it a system memory? Because I rarely if ever have issues like this, and I have Claude under strict rules to never commit or push anything unless I explicitly instruct it to do so.

> They tried that, several times.

Tried what exactly? Telling it to only agree with MAGA via the system prompt? or some Tay level hallucinations? I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to make Grok less strict on what it says but running into the "holy crap it turned into a 4chan poster" wall.
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ceejayoz 1 hour ago
> Is it a system memory?

As I said, it's in my CLAUDE.md. That just gets progressively lost when context gets larger.

> Tried what exactly?

To make it align more with Musk's beliefs via the prompt.

(The answer to your question is literally in my post; I quoted the parent poster's "all they would have to do is add a one liner to the system prompt for Grok")

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giancarlostoro 1 hour ago
> As I said, it's in my CLAUDE.md. That just gets progressively lost when context gets larger.

I rarely have this problem, but you could do a /loop every 30 minutes or so to have Claude reread the CLAUDE.md file might do the trick? or however long it 'forgets' I believe there's an MCP for "after" it finishes a task or compacts too, but I don't recall the name.

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ceejayoz 1 hour ago
Sure, I could. (I have a fairly complex workflow with subagents at this point, which helps reduce it; I mainly get bitten by it when I go back to a direct `claude` CLI prompt for something.)

But that solves "my LLM is doing things I don't want it to do". It doesn't solve "Grok's owner wants it forced into agreeing with him" scenarios.

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giancarlostoro 1 hour ago
Have you tried something like beads? Curious if it would help with your setup too. This is also kind of why I built "GuardRails" I got tired of Beads auto-approving tickets or closing them.

https://github.com/Giancarlos/guardrails

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ceejayoz 1 hour ago
I have a custom Mac app that runs a workflow with plan/build/review/test/document subagents in Ralph loops, manages MCPs, etc. that I'm extremely happy with so far.

Beads was a bit of an inspiration for parts, as was Chainlink (https://github.com/dollspace-gay/chainlink).

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