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Set up Claude Code in a monorepo or large codebase changedlarge-codebases

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154154The deny rules can cover everyone working in the repository, only you, or every session on the machine, depending on which settings file you put them in:
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156156* **Everyone working in the repository**: commit the rules to `.claude/settings.json`, at the repository root if you start Claude there, or in each package's `.claude/` if you start from subdirectories. Like other project settings on this page, that file isn't inherited from parent directories.
157* **Yourself only**: use `.claude/settings.local.json` at the repository root, which loads in every CLI session inside the repository regardless of starting directory, except in the cases where Claude Code [doesn't use the repository root](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings.md#where-claude-code-looks-for-each-file), such as on Windows. Relative patterns like the example's `Read(./**/vendor/**/*)` still [anchor at the session's current working directory](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/permissions.md#read-and-edit) rather than the repository root, so if you start sessions from subdirectories, write the rules in this file as `//`-absolute paths, such as `Read(//absolute/path/to/repo/**/vendor/**/*)`. Before v2.1.211, `.claude/settings.local.json` also loaded only from the starting directory.
157* **Yourself only**: use `.claude/settings.local.json` at the repository root. It loads in every CLI session inside the repository regardless of starting directory, except in the cases where Claude Code [doesn't use the repository root](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings.md#where-claude-code-looks-for-each-file), such as on Windows.
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159 Relative patterns like the example's `Read(./**/vendor/**/*)` still [anchor at the session's current working directory](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/permissions.md#read-and-edit) rather than the repository root. If you start sessions from subdirectories, write the rules in this file as `//`-absolute paths, such as `Read(//absolute/path/to/repo/**/vendor/**/*)`.
158160* **Everyone, enforced in every session**: set the rules in [managed settings](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/managed-settings.md), which user and project settings cannot override.
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160162The example below blocks build artifacts and a vendored SDK. Its directory patterns end with `/**/*` rather than `/**` so that each rule covers everything inside the directory but not the directory itself. Claude can then still list those directories or change into them, for example with `ls dist` or `cd build`.
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372374Move conventions and reference content out of always-loaded CLAUDE.md and into mechanisms that load on demand:
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374376* [Skills](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills.md): reference material Claude loads only when relevant to the task
375* [Plugins](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins/overview.md): versioned bundles of skills, hooks, and commands that a platform team owns centrally
377* [Plugins](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins/overview.md): versioned bundles of skills, hooks, and commands that a platform team owns centrally and can [install for everyone through managed settings](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins/org.md#pre-install-and-require-plugins)
376378* [MCP servers](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp.md): if your organization already runs a code search or RAG index over the repository, expose it as an MCP tool so Claude queries it instead of reading files directly
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378380See [server-managed or endpoint-managed settings](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/server-managed-settings.md#choose-between-server-managed-and-endpoint-managed-settings) for how platform teams can enforce these centrally.
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