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Claude tries hard to avoid codegraph

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active

Research direction

Start by reading the general and project claude.md instructions, the agent's memory, and the strategy file mentioned in the report. Check how these instructions tell Claude to use codegraph and compare that with the reported behavior. The issue does not define a specific change or a test for completion, so clarify the intended behavior before taking it on.

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Description

"The codegraph output is heavily compressed, so I'm reading the strategy file directly for details."

You can write rule to use codegraph in general claude.md + project claude.md + in his memory and still got this

Dominant language
C
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