docs(claude): non-exact rules/ neither purges orphans nor flags them#301
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Session distill from the 2026-07 context diet: moving or deleting a rule from exact_dot_claude/rules/ leaves the old target orphaned in ~/.claude/rules/ (still loading every turn) with no chezmoi status D line, because exact_ semantics stop at the directory carrying the prefix. Document the manual target cleanup and the inverse unmanaged-file sweep in chezmoi-conventions.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RVnFBnQFMWKgd8h4kTCjZy
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What
Session distill from the #300 context diet: document in
.claude/rules/chezmoi-conventions.mdthat non-exact_subdirs neither purge orphaned targets nor flag them — the flip side of the existing per-directory-level note.exact_dot_claude/rules/leaves the old target orphaned in~/.claude/rules/, still loading into every session, with noDline inchezmoi statusto reveal it. Manual target cleanup +chezmoi source-pathverification documented.Both directions bit during the #300 diet (7 orphaned targets after the wave-1 moves; one 4.7 KB unmanaged rule found loading invisibly).
Why not in #300
The commit was authored on the #300 branch during session wrap-up, but the PR had already been squash-merged — pushing would have orphaned it (hazard #2 in the freshly consolidated
git-hazards.md, fittingly). Cherry-picked onto a fresh branch fromorigin/main.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01RVnFBnQFMWKgd8h4kTCjZy