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 "generated": "2026-10-20",
 "id": "wanshuiyin-hero-anti-overdefense--paste-scope-limits-into-claude-md",
 "repo": "wanshuiyin/HERO-Anti-OverDefense",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/wanshuiyin/HERO-Anti-OverDefense",
 "repo_slug": "wanshuiyin-hero-anti-overdefense",
 "title": "Stop Claude Code from over-hardening a small feature",
 "page_title": "How to stop Claude Code from over-hardening a small feature with HERO Anti Over Defense",
 "summary": "Append the HERO scope block to CLAUDE.md so Claude Code stops adding unneeded hashes, flags and wrappers.",
 "who": "A solo developer using Claude Code on a small project who keeps getting checksums, feature flags and compat layers for features that will never need them.",
 "problem": "The agent answers a simple feature request with defensive scaffolding and extra verification loops, and the feature is delayed or never finished.",
 "outcome": "CLAUDE.md contains the SCOPE LIMITS block, so the agent loads the rules at the start of every session and proposes only fixes that are in scope.",
 "steps": [
  "Open the terminal in your project root, where CLAUDE.md lives or should live.",
  "Run `grep -qi 'scope.limits' CLAUDE.md` to check whether the block is already there. Exit status 0 means it is.",
  "If it is not there, run the install command from the Quickstart section of README.md, with CLAUDE.md as the target file.",
  "Open CLAUDE.md and confirm that a section starting with `=== SCOPE LIMITS` appears once at the end.",
  "Start a new Claude Code session and ask for a small feature to see whether the agent keeps to the rules."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "Read RULES.md in the HERO-Anti-OverDefense repo and confirm that the SCOPE LIMITS block is present in <project>/CLAUDE.md, appended once and nothing else changed. Then implement <small feature> and report which of rules 1 to 9 you applied, and confirm that no hashes, feature flags or wrappers were added unless the feature needed them.",
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 "difficulty": "Beginner",
 "time": "15 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The install command only appends the block, so a stale block from an earlier paste will not be replaced and must be deleted by hand before running it again.",
 "category": "Software and DevOps",
 "tags": [
  "Software and DevOps"
 ],
 "lang": "markdown",
 "requirements": [
  "A coding agent that loads a config file automatically, such as CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md or .cursorrules",
  "A terminal with curl, awk and grep to run the one-line install, or a text editor to paste the block by hand",
  "A project where you can edit the agent config file"
 ],
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 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [],
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 "score": 1.0,
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