A committed .claude/settings.json bound everyone who opens the repo in Claude Code: it switched
their auto memory off, and its one hook guarded the install against Claude's Edit and Write
tools only, never a write through the shell or by another agent. The rule it backed is enforced
for every tool by the code and by scripts/smoke.sh's install watch, which METHOD now cites. jq is
no longer a prerequisite, and .gitignore shares only the skills under .claude/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
