Comment by parad0x0n

fair point. I think they should ALSO be in your CLAUDE.md. Doing Claude reviews with the exact same instructions still makes sense because the PR itself is often a co-production between AI and the human who gives the instructions (and in the coding process the agent might be more sycophantic toward the user's ideas). Additionally, when writing code, Claude is more focused on writing code that works and puts a lot of your repo into context, while during reviewing it pays more attention to these guidelines