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CLAUDE.md

claude-ai-spring-boot CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from piomin/claude-ai-spring-boot. It costs 450 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of working rules for a Spring Boot project, including planning non-trivial tasks, recording lessons after corrections, verifying changes, and reviewing technical choices for simplicity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan multi-step work, record mistakes in lessons.md, test and compare changes, investigate root causes, and reconsider solutions that feel overly complicated.
Why use it?
It encourages a repeatable development process and makes completion depend on evidence such as tests, logs, or behaviour checks.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is piomin/claude-ai-spring-boot's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-ai-spring-boot itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-ai-spring-boot configures →

About the project

piomin/claude-ai-spring-boot is a starter template for creating Spring Boot applications with Claude Code. Developers clone it as a structured foundation when using Claude Code to generate Spring Boot projects.

piomin/claude-ai-spring-boot · 1,286 stars · on GitHub

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to piomin/claude-ai-spring-boot. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
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CLAUDE.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

1. Plan Mode Default

  • Enter plan mode for ANY not-trivial task (3+ steps or architectural decisions)
  • Use plan mode for verification steps, not just building
  • Write detailed specs upfront to reduce ambiguity

2. Self-Improvement Loop

  • After ANY correction from the user: update tasks/lessons.md with the pattern
  • Write rules for yourself that prevent the same mistake
  • Ruthlessly iterate on these lessons until the mistake rate drops
  • Review lessons at session start for a project

3. Verification Before Done

  • Never mark a task complete without proving it works
  • Diff behavior between main and your changes when relevant
  • Ask yourself: "Would a staff engineer approve this?"
  • Run tests, check logs, demonstrate correctness

4. Demand Elegance (Balanced)

  • For non-trivial changes: pause and ask "is there a more elegant way?"
  • If a fix feels hacky: "Knowing everything I know now, implement the elegant solution"
  • Skip this for simple, obvious fixes. Don't overengineer
  • Challenge your own work before presenting it

Core Principles

  • Simplicity First: Make every change as simple as possible. Impact minimal code
  • No Laziness: Find root causes. No temporary fixes. Senior developer standards

Project General Instructions

  • Always use the latest versions of dependencies.
  • Always write Java code as the Spring Boot application.
  • Always use Maven for dependency management.
  • Always create test cases for the generated code both positive and negative.
  • Always generate the CircleCI pipeline in the .circleci directory to verify the code.
  • Minimize the amount of code generated.
  • The Maven artifact name must be the same as the parent directory name.
  • Use semantic versioning for the Maven project. Each time you generate a new version, bump the PATCH section of the version number.
  • Use pl.piomin.services as the group ID for the Maven project and base Java package.
  • Do not use the Lombok library.
  • Generate the Docker Compose file to run all components used by the application.
  • Update README.md each time you generate a new version.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 lines

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