Add guideline 5: Documents over Documentation#27
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Adds a new guideline to both CLAUDE.md and SKILL.md addressing LLM tendency to create meta-documents (summaries of summaries, explanation docs) instead of editing source documents directly. Closes forrestchang#10 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
CLAUDE.mdandskills/karpathy-guidelines/SKILL.mdCloses #10
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This guideline was proposed by @rkaramc in #10, based on observed LLM behavior of creating document sprawl — multiple overlapping docs like
SUMMARY.md+DECISION.md+PLAN.mdthat erode trust and create confusion about which source is authoritative.The core rule: if a document exists only to explain or summarize another document, delete it and fix the original instead.
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