Claude Memory Test

This project tests Claude Code's path-specific rules feature.

Path-Specific Rules

Path-specific rules allow you to automatically load context-specific instructions when working with certain files or directories.

Test Setup

Rules are configured in .claude/rules/ with different YAML frontmatter formats:

.claude/rules/
├── api-paths-quoted-csv.md       # paths: "a,b,c" format
├── api-paths-unquoted-csv.md     # paths: a,b,c format
├── api-paths-yaml-array.md       # paths: YAML array format
├── database.md
└── frontend/
    ├── react-patterns.md
    └── testing.md

Test Environment

• OS: macOS
• Claude Code: v2.1.17 (native)

Test Results

File	Format	Example	Loaded
api-paths-quoted-csv.md	Quoted CSV	paths: "src/api/**/*,src/services/**/*"	✅
api-paths-unquoted-csv.md	Unquoted CSV	paths: src/api/**/*,src/services/**/*	✅
api-paths-yaml-array.md	YAML Array	paths: - "src/api/**/*"	❌

Conclusion: The documentation shows YAML array format, but only CSV format (with or without quotes) actually works.

Testing

Run Claude Code and reference a file to trigger path-specific rules:

claude "refactor @src/api/users.ts"

⎿  Read src/api/users.ts (59 lines)
⎿  Loaded .claude/rules/api-paths-quoted-csv.md
⎿  Loaded .claude/rules/api-paths-unquoted-csv.md

When you reference src/api/users.ts, the API standards rules should automatically load.