January 4, 2026
Praise or Prompt Poison?
Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config
Auto-learning for Claude sparks hype, fear, and a 'context rot' panic
TLDR: Claude Reflect auto-records your corrections and praise to teach Claude Code via project notes. Comments split: some love conversation mining, others warn of “context rot” and mock the “scan for compliments” trick, while privacy skeptics ask if big AI already trains on our chats.
Claude Reflect just dropped on GitHub, promising to auto-turn your chat corrections and little “nice job!” moments into project notes, so Claude Code remembers what you like. Sounds dreamy, right? The internet immediately split into camps, and the comments bring the popcorn.
One camp cheered the idea of mining conversations, with folks wondering why this isn’t already standard — and even hinting that big AI companies probably train on this anyway, raising eyebrows about privacy. The other camp slammed the brakes with a loud “context rot” warning: stuffing more and more notes into your setup can make your AI perform worse, so keep things small and tight.
Comedy hour came courtesy of a script that tries to spot “positive patterns” by scanning for words like “perfect!” and “nailed it.” One commenter called it “fanciful,” and the thread instantly turned it into a meme: “toxic positivity as a feature.”
Practical voices chimed in too. Some already run heavy documentation workflows and asked if this really beats a well-organized prompt and plan. Others flipped the script entirely: let Claude write code, but don’t auto-edit the core guide — keep it short and under human control. Verdict: ambitious idea, messy reality, maximum drama.
Key Points
- •“claude-reflect” is a public GitHub repository providing a self-learning system for Claude Code.
- •It captures user corrections, positive feedback, and preferences during sessions.
- •Captured learnings are synchronized into project documents, notably CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md.
- •The repository is MIT-licensed and, at the time shown, had 32 stars and no forks.
- •Key repository components include a .claude-plugin directory and documentation files like CLAUDE.md and SKILL.md.