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Kimi K3 is an open-weight, 2.8T-parameter native multimodal agentic model with a 1M-token context window, designed for frontier coding, knowledge work, and reasoning tasks.
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FR-AI / ANALYSISWhy it is worth attention
It formalizes a multi-tier memory system for Claude, provides a proven non-technical onboarding prompt, and was written by Claude Fable 5 to preserve its behavior across model upgrades.
Who it is for
- Claude Code users wanting persistent per-project instructions
- Non-technical professionals who want to control Claude's behavior without coding
- Teams collaborating on shared Claude configurations via git
- AI enthusiasts seeking optimal Claude setup patterns
Use cases
- Setting global rules for all Claude sessions via the computer-tier file
- Defining project-specific standards shared with teammates through the project-tier file
- Isolating rules for particular subfolders that require different behavior
- Having Claude interview a non-technical user and build personalized instructions automatically
Strengths
- Clear three-tier architecture with explicit placement rules to avoid contradictions
- Non-technical path that requires only a single prompt paste, no terminal or coding
- Templates written by a frontier model based on official best practices and community knowledge
- Emphasis on brevity (under 40/200 lines) and specificity to ensure instructions are obeyed
Considerations
- Full functionality requires Claude Code; non-technical users on the Claude app get a weaker setup via settings
- Initial setup still requires user interaction (e.g., placeholders need filling or an interview must be completed)
- Templates are starting points only; each user must actively customize them to avoid generic behavior
README quick start
The Three-Tier CLAUDE.md Templates
Claude reads your CLAUDE.md files before every single prompt — they're its standing orders. Most people know about one, in the project root. There are actually three tiers, and the difference is reach:
| Tier | Lives at | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Computer | ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md | Every project you ever open |
| Project | your-project/CLAUDE.md | This project, every session, shared with your team via git |
| Folder | any-folder/CLAUDE.md | Just that corner — only loaded when Claude works in there |
The test for where a rule goes: true for everything you build? Computer. True for this project? Project. True for one corner of it? Folder. A rule lives at exactly one tier — the highest one where it's still true — because the files add together, they don't override each other.
This repo holds a starter template for each tier, plus the prompt that gets Claude to write yours properly.
For non-technical professionals
The most asked question after these templates went out: "does any of this work if I'm not technical?" Yes — because the file was never about code. It's standing orders, and yours are ways of thinking: plain English, one question at a time, push back when I'm wrong.
The non-technical folder holds a full set written by Fable before it left: the main file of general traits, plus project and folder versions for when a specific piece of work needs its own rules. There are no steps to follow — one paste does everything. Claude fetches the files, interviews you (one question at a time) about what you actually want from it, researches your line of work where it helps, and tailors every level to you:
Please set up my CLAUDE.md files — the standing instructions every future
session will follow. I'm not technical, so plain English throughout, and do
everything for me rather than giving me instructions.
Start by fetching the base files — the raw versions live here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oliwoodman/claude-md-templates/main/non-technical/CLAUDE.md
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oliwoodman/claude-md-templates/main/non-technical/project/CLAUDE.md
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oliwoodman/claude-md-templates/main/non-technical/folder/CLAUDE.md
They hold the general traits; your job is to make them mine.
Then interview me, one question at a time. No set number of
Description
Three-tier CLAUDE.md starter templates (computer / project / folder) plus the distill prompt — written by Fable in its last included weekend. You can't keep the model; you can keep its way of thinking.
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