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Pin a ruleset at the top of every long thread.
Claude drifts past 20 turns. Re-state the rules as a system block before any drift-prone task.
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XML for instructions, markdown for content.
Tags signal structure. Mixing them hurts reliability and makes later edits brittle.
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