TL;DR: Here's the exact scenario: you're three hours into a refactoring session, Claude Code has been cheerfully renaming modules, rewriting functions, and touching files across your entire codebase. Then it hits something — a file that writes to disk in a certain pattern, a shell comm

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What's in this article

The Moment You Hit the Wall (And Why You're Not Alone)

What Claude Code's Policy Actually Is (Straight From the Docs, Not Paraphrased)

Setting Up Claude Code: The Baseline Before Policy Hits You

The 4 Policy Triggers I Hit Most Often in Real Dev Work

Project Context

Security Testing Guidance

Data Sources (all owned/authorized)

What this codebase does

The Moment You Hit the Wall (And Why You're Not Alone)

You're Mid-Refactor and Claude Code Just Stopped Cold

Here's the exact scenario: you're three hours into a refactoring session, Claude Code has been cheerfully renaming modules, rewriting functions, and touching files across your entire codebase.…