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 # AI Coding Assistants (any depth)
 
 ## Claude Code
-**/.claude/*
-!**/.claude/
-!**/.claude/CLAUDE.md
-!**/.claude/README.md
+# Currently ignored to allow testing from experiment branches (#91)
+# To test: git checkout exp/claude-code-setup -- .claude/ CLAUDE.md
+CLAUDE.md
+.claude/
 
 ## OpenAI Codex
 **/.codex/