Alaister YoungandAlaister Young 4b24cf028a chore(claude): improve CLAUDE.md files and skill triggering (#48261)
Improves the repo's agent guidance: distills the always-required
`studio-best-practices` skill into `apps/studio/CLAUDE.md`, tunes every
skill description for reliable triggering, and mechanically enforces the
generated-files rule. Grounded in Anthropic's official CLAUDE.md
guidance (see justifications below).

## The main change: Studio CLAUDE.md gets a Code style section

**Why:** `studio-best-practices` was a skill that instructed agents to
*always* load it before any Studio code work. Anthropic's guidance draws
the line as: sometimes-relevant guidance → skill (loaded on demand);
always-relevant guidance → CLAUDE.md. A skill that must always load has
failed the test for being a skill — it costs a tool-call round trip and,
worse, silently does nothing in sessions that forget to load it. Since
`apps/studio/CLAUDE.md` is lazy-loaded only when an agent touches Studio
files, inlining is properly scoped: non-Studio sessions never pay for
it.

**Why not verbatim:** the skill was 175 lines, mostly ❌/✅ worked
examples teaching practices models already know. Inlining it whole would
push the file past the ~200-line point where Anthropic warns rules start
getting lost. Instead each section was distilled to the rule it exists
to enforce — e.g. the loading/error/success section kept its code block
because the *shape* (early returns at top level, flat `&&` chains
inline) is the prescription, and prose loses it.

**The framing that makes the generic rules earn their place:** models
default to matching surrounding code, and not all existing Studio code
follows these practices. The section opens with "older Studio code
predates some of these conventions — follow them rather than mirroring
nearby legacy patterns," which converts otherwise-redundant React advice
into an explicit instruction to break from local precedent. One rule was
added that the old skill lacked: `useEffect` is for external-system sync
only (~364 Studio files contain effects, many in patterns we don't want
copied).

**Changed:**
- `apps/studio/CLAUDE.md` — new Code style section (84 lines total,
within budget); skills table no longer mandates a pre-load
- `.claude/CLAUDE.md` — dropped `pnpm install` from commands (guessable;
Anthropic's test: "would removing this cause mistakes?")

**Removed:**
- `.claude/skills/studio-best-practices/` — fully absorbed; its
cross-references to other skills were already covered by the skills
routing table

## Skill description tuning

Descriptions are the only signal an agent sees before deciding to load a
skill, and the observed failure mode is under-triggering on tasks that
don't name the skill. Nine descriptions reworded: front-loaded matchable
keywords, added incidental-trigger cases (e.g. a new feature that adds
copy is a `copywriting` moment), and disambiguated overlaps (`vitest` is
now the API reference deferring to `studio-testing` for strategy). The
`safe-sql-execution` rewrite was additionally validated with
skill-creator's trigger-eval loop against 20 realistic queries: held-out
test accuracy 54% → 71%, with zero false triggers across all iterations.
(`vitest` shows under `.agents/` because `.claude/skills/vitest`
symlinks there.)

## Generated-files enforcement

**Added:** `permissions.deny` rules in `.claude/settings.json` for the
six generated-file globs the root CLAUDE.md already lists. CLAUDE.md
prose is advisory; permission rules are mechanical and also gate
sandboxed Bash writes. (Verified live: the rule blocked an unintended
regeneration of `database-types.ts` during testing.)

## To test

- CI: prettier + typos checks pass (docs-only + settings change, no app
code)
- In a fresh Claude Code session in the repo: ask it to edit
`apps/studio/routeTree.gen.ts` — should be denied by the new permission
rule
- Ask it to do any Studio UI task — it should pick up the Code style
rules from `apps/studio/CLAUDE.md` without loading a best-practices
skill

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Updated development guidance for testing, copywriting, SQL safety,
telemetry, queries, error handling, and toolbar reviews.
* Restructured Vitest references into clearer tables and improved
formatting across several guides.
* Added Studio code-style conventions and clarified when task-specific
guidance should be applied.
  * Removed outdated Studio best-practices guidance.

* **Chores**
  * Added safeguards preventing edits to generated and protected files.
  * Simplified the documented development command sequence.

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Co-authored-by: Alaister Young <10985857+alaister@users.noreply.github.com>
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