Fifth Clause for Claude Code CLAUDE.MD Encourages Proactive Suggestions
June 21, 2026
A user-contributed addition to Karpathy's four-clause CLAUDE.md prompt explicitly invites Claude Code to suggest better approaches rather than just executing instructions conservatively. The fifth clause counterbalances the 'simplest solution first' and 'don't touch unrelated code' rules, which can suppress useful model suggestions.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can add this fifth clause to your own CLAUDE.md to get more proactive architectural suggestions from Claude Code without sacrificing the discipline of the other four rules.