MEMORY

EXACT FILES

Point at the file, do not describe it.

Edit the login is vague. Edit src/app/auth/page.tsx:42 is surgical.

When you know where it lives, say where it lives. Saves search tools and prevents Claude from editing the wrong file with the same name.

Also works for functions: paste the exact snippet to change. Big models pick up context better from literal text than from descriptions.

In practice

# Vague (costs search tools):
> edit the login to use email magic link

# Surgical (Claude goes straight there):
> in apps/sapiens/src/app/login/page.tsx:42,
  swap the Google button block for the magic
  link imported from @/lib/auth/magic-link

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