docs: commit as you go — working practice#11
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Untangling a security fix from in-flight Pillar 8 work took a whole session, because both landed uncommitted in the same files and nothing recorded which hunk was whose. That is a judgment rule with no gate behind it, so it goes in CLAUDE.md: commit each concern as it stands alone, never let two share a dirty tree, branch independently shippable work off master, and label wip: as wip:.
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Adds a short Working practice section to CLAUDE.md, before
## Enforcement.Untangling a security fix from in-flight agent-management work cost a full session, because both landed uncommitted in the same files and nothing recorded which hunk was whose. That is judgment with no gate behind it, so CLAUDE.md is its home:
go test ./...is green;master;wip:.The section says outright that nothing enforces it.
Note: CLAUDE.md is now 231 lines against its own ~200 budget — it was already 214 before this. Worth a trim pass, separately.