I'm not sure why you all have issues with CC commenting too much. My rules in the CLAUDE.md specify that comments are evil, never comment unless there is an actual need to explain a WHY and since I do read what CC writes, if I spot it still adding such WHY comments and they make no sense, I'll have it adjust, in many cases by removing them.

Given the code base has a minimal amount of such comments, it's also less likely to go "copy what the rest of the codebase does".

Of course I've now jinxed it and some update will cause it to ignore the instructions coz I didn't write them in the new model's style or something.

As the context fills up the models will happily firget and ignore any number of any sections of your CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md.

Edit:

I've had explicit instructions for communication style in CLAUDE.md, in Claude's project "memory", in global "memory", in "skills": it couldn't care less where it was. It would just ignore it.

When I would point this out it would just say "Yes, I violated communication guidelines, I won't do that again". Only to do that again in the next session.

This applies to everything: code guidelines, communication guidelines, preferences, decisions etc.