chore: stop tracking CLAUDE.md

[vitali87]

Makes CLAUDE.md a per-clone local file instead of shared repo content: adds it
to .gitignore and removes the index entry with git rm --cached.

The working copy is left in place, so no one loses their local guide. The file
and its prior commits stay reachable in history — this stops tracking going
forward, it does not rewrite anything.

Consequence worth being explicit about: a fresh clone will not have this
file, and edits to it will no longer reach other clones or other agent sessions.
Anything in it that needs to be shared has to live somewhere tracked.

Release gate: no src/, build.rs, Cargo.toml or Cargo.lock changes, so no
version bump or release-notes replacement applies.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Removed local agent workflow guidance from the project.
  • Prevented the local instruction file from being included in future commits.

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claimed by croft-range-formatting (session working feat/range-formatting)

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Walkthrough

The change removes the tracked CLAUDE.md instruction file and adds CLAUDE.md to .gitignore.

Changes

Local instruction file handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ignore local CLAUDE.md .gitignore, CLAUDE.md	.gitignore now ignores the clone-local CLAUDE.md file. The tracked CLAUDE.md document was deleted.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cd2ff

Fresh clones will no longer contain CLAUDE.md, but contributor guidance still treats it as required for agent claiming and review verification. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to update that guidance or move the required instructions into a tracked document.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: removing CLAUDE.md from repository tracking while retaining it as a local file.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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In @.gitignore:
- Around line 56-57: Update the contributor guidance in CONTRIBUTING.md so
CLAUDE.md is described as optional and clone-local rather than required, or move
its required claiming and review-verification instructions into a tracked
document; keep the .gitignore entry unchanged.

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Ran because CodeRabbit's check on this PR is pass but annotated "Review rate limited" — a green row meaning no review happened. This comment is the review artifact.

Walkthrough

This PR makes CLAUDE.md a per-clone local file rather than shared repo content: it adds an unanchored CLAUDE.md entry to .gitignore and drops the index entry (working copy left in place). A follow-up commit reworks the CONTRIBUTING.md paragraph that previously linked to CLAUDE.md as required agent reading, so a fresh clone no longer follows a dead link. The net effect is that 148 lines of multi-session coordination protocol stop shipping with the repo.

file	summary
.gitignore	Adds a comment plus an unanchored CLAUDE.md pattern at line 57.
CLAUDE.md	Deleted from the index (148 lines): the claimed-label protocol, cross-session coordination rules, and the "verifying a review actually happened" guidance.
CONTRIBUTING.md	Rewrites lines 8–12: the [CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md) link and "read it" instruction become a description of an untracked, clone-local file.

Findings

• CLAUDE.md (deleted) / CONTRIBUTING.md:8-12 [major/docs] — Load-bearing process rules are lost outright, not relocated. The PR body says "Anything in it that needs to be shared has to live somewhere tracked", but nothing was moved anywhere tracked in this PR. Verified: git grep -- "--add-label" origin/chore/ignore-claude-md returns nothing across the whole head tree, while the control git grep -c -- "--add-label" origin/main returns origin/main:CLAUDE.md:2 — so the token existed only in the deleted file and now exists nowhere. Likewise git grep -n "claimed" on the head tree returns only unrelated matches ("reclaimed" in CONTRIBUTING.md:35,53, "claimed by the debugger" in docs/KEYBINDINGS.md:419) — zero hits for the label concept. CONTRIBUTING.md's headings on the head branch are Every shipped change is a release, Managing the target/ directory, Bumping the Rust toolchain; none covers claiming or review verification.

  Three things go with it, each documented in the deleted text as the fix for a collision that actually happened:

  1. The claimed label protocol, including the rule that you must label both the issue and the PR ("it happened on New croft install opens all old croft terminals empty #249, and came close on Auto-hide sidebar #260 with two sessions building the same feature in parallel").
  2. The release-gate race warning — that the gate compares head against the merge base and therefore cannot catch two branches claiming the same version, so you must re-read git show origin/main:Cargo.toml at merge time. Confirmed a real property of the gate, not folklore: .github/workflows/ci.yml:45 computes base="$(git merge-base "origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF" HEAD)" and compares against that, so both branches pass legitimately. Nothing tracked in the repo records this.
  3. The "a green CodeRabbit check can mean Review rate limited" warning — directly relevant given this very PR has no bot review.

  Concrete fix — add a section to CONTRIBUTING.md before deleting:

  +## Working this repo concurrently
  +
  +Several sessions often work this repo in parallel. Before starting on an issue
  +or PR, check for the `claimed` label; if it is there, leave it alone. Add it
  +when you start and remove it when you merge, stop, or hand off — from both the
  +issue and the PR, since sessions scan `gh issue list` for work.
  +
  +The `version bump + release notes` gate compares your head against the merge
  +base, so two branches can both pass and only the second to merge conflicts.
  +Re-read `git show origin/main:Cargo.toml` alongside your final `gh pr checks`.
  +
  +A green CodeRabbit check can be annotated "Review rate limited" — a pass that
  +means no review happened. Confirm a non-empty review body naming the head SHA.

• .gitignore:57 [minor/correctness] — The pattern is unanchored, so it ignores CLAUDE.md at every depth, not just the root file the comment describes. Verified: git check-ignore -v docs/CLAUDE.md src/CLAUDE.md .github/CLAUDE.md reports all three matched by .gitignore:57. This contradicts the file's own convention for root-only local files — every other clone-local root-specific entry is anchored: /target, /.cargo/config.toml, /.config/nextest.toml, /.direnv/, /result, /clippy-report.json, /.scannerwork/. The unanchored entries are all genuinely depth-agnostic (*.dbg, .DS_Store, __pycache__/). Blast radius is small today, but a future docs/CLAUDE.md would be silently unstageable. Fix:

  -CLAUDE.md
  +/CLAUDE.md

Test coverage

No test gap. The diff touches no src/, tests/, build.rs, Cargo.toml, or Cargo.lock, and changes no runtime behavior. .gitignore semantics are enforced by git itself.

Release-gate compliance confirmed exempt, not assumed: .github/workflows/ci.yml:50-57 selects shipped files with grep -E '^(src/|assets/|build\.rs$|Cargo\.toml$|Cargo\.lock$)' and exits 0 with "No shipped files changed" when empty. This diff touches only .gitignore, CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md. The gate runs on pull_request only (line 35), with no path filters this file set could route around.

Nitpicks

• CONTRIBUTING.md:8-12 [nit/docs] — "Agents working this repo usually also keep a CLAUDE.md at the root" describes a convention without telling a fresh clone how to obtain one. A pointer would make the paragraph actionable.

Scores

CodeRabbit score (diff quality) — 4/5: One minor inside the changed code — the unanchored .gitignore:57 pattern diverging from the file's own anchoring convention. Mechanics otherwise correct: index-only removal, working copy preserved, CONTRIBUTING dead link caught in the same PR.

Greptile score (codebase fit) — 3/5: Exactly one major whose evidence lives outside the diff — the claimed-label protocol, merge-base version race, and rate-limited-review warning are verifiably absent from every tracked file on the head branch, with no tracked replacement.

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