The four things that stop people in week one. Each page is the cause, the fix, and the reasons the fix does not take.
Last updated: 2026-09-20
Approvals are per-run, not remembered. The allowlist that stops it, and the three reasons it still doesn't work.
Sessions start with no memory. A CLAUDE.md is what carries the project across — and short beats thorough.
Almost never the protocol. The check that rules out half of it, then the five causes in order.
The prompt is minor. A step that could not run being read as a step that passed is not.
Usually it is running. A hook's stderr never reaches the transcript, so a crash and a no-show look identical.
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