# Global preferences

A step of the [Claude Code development environment](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/claude-dev-environment) tree on Gradus, in the Project memory area: CLAUDE.md, docs, conventions.

Page: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/claude-dev-environment/step/global-preferences

Keep personal preferences that apply to every project (commit style, language, prose rules) in the user-level CLAUDE.md, not in the repository.

Usually comes after: [Project CLAUDE.md](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/claude-dev-environment/step/project-claude-md).

## Prompt for your AI assistant

```
Create or update ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md with the preferences that should apply to every repository I work in: commit message style, which language to answer in, prose and code-comment rules. Move any such personal rules out of this repository's CLAUDE.md so the project file keeps only project facts.
```

Every step of the tree: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/claude-dev-environment/llms.txt