Claude reads it alright, and then ignores it.

Dev: Why did you run Y command? Doesn’t it clearly say in README.md to use X command instead?

Claude: You are right to be frustrated. I ignored it because “some generic excuse”. It won’t happen again

Narrator: It will happen again

Asking it why it did something will not get you usable data. It will read what it did in the context and hallucinate a reason.