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User finds Claude setup inflexible and cumbersome

A user expressed frustration with the setup process for Claude, describing it as intentionally inflexible. They noted the need to manually create a symbolic link for their ~/.agents/ folder because the application did not automatically read it. AI

RANK_REASON Single user complaint about a product, not a widespread issue or official announcement.

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User finds Claude setup inflexible and cumbersome

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    claude is so complicated with setting up, being unflexible on purpose. i have to maunally hook a command to symlink my ~/.agents/ folder, instead it reading it

    claude is so complicated with setting up, being unflexible on purpose. i have to maunally hook a command to symlink my ~/.agents/ folder, instead it reading it by default, like openai does. gotta put this into ~/.claude/settings.json: for d in ~/.agents/skills/*/; do name=$(basen…