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CLAUDE.md rules block Cursor/Claude from modifying project files outside AutoForge #187

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@gino8080

Hi!
First of all, congratulations on the project — AutoForge is incredibly well‑designed and genuinely powerful. Amazing work.

I’ve encountered a problem related to the automatically generated claude.md file.
The file includes rules such as:

## What You CANNOT Do

- Modify, create, or delete source code files
- Mark features as passing (that requires actual implementation by the coding agent)
- Run bash commands or execute code

I understand why these restrictions are necessary inside AutoForge, but they create an unintended side effect:
when opening the project in Cursor, or when using Claude Code independently of AutoForge, these same rules prevent the LLM from modifying any project files. This makes normal development workflows impossible.

Request
Would it be possible to provide:

a fix or adjustment to how claude.md is generated,
or

an official workaround to allow editing the project with Cursor/Claude outside AutoForge,
or

a way to distinguish between “AutoForge mode” and “external editor mode,” so that restrictive rules don’t interfere with regular coding?

Thanks in advance for your time, and again — great job on this project.

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