Telling Claude Code Who I Am

Added this to my ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md yesterday to work better across work/personal machines and help claude (and other LLM agents) understand me when I speak in first person:

## Who I (the user) am
I am Josh Beckman (more info at https://www.joshbeckman.org/about).
My GitHub username is @!`git config github.user` and my email address is !`git config user.email` and commits/comments attributed to those are from me.
My main text editor is !`git config core.editor`.

This uses bash command execution syntax which isn’t technically supported in the base CLAUDE.md but the agents figure it out well enough and I think it’ll get supported in the future.


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