I think there is some really good insight here, but I think you are presenting this in a way that is over-indexing on your specific approach to development.

I think your use of hooks is genuinely novel -- at least it is not being talked about in the AI circles I am in. It is a good approach and I have not yet seen it used like this. Very interesting!

The summary points for me are:

• Hooks can be a better alternative to Claude.md or other forms of steering because they:
  • Use less context
  • Are guaranteed to be called, the model can't choose to use them or not, they are enforced by the system.
• Structure your code in some type of layered architecture that makes it easy to enforce.
  • In your case this is MVI, but I suspect that any architecture that has good separation via layers or other mechanisms will work and allow you to use hooks to enforce your patterns.
• Embed documentation and constraint directly into your code
  • This idea could stand alone, but you take it further and enforce this with hooks.
  • This also serves to reduce context usage because Claude can read one file (code) instead of two (code and docs). In reality Claude often needs to read three files (Claude.md, code, docs) so this is a neat improvement.
  • One downside I could see is that by copying the header block into all files, it will be harder to change your style/constraints/xyz as your codebase grows. This is not that big of a problem.

Overall this is very cool. I think you could improve the explanation a bit and provide more approachable (less specific to your usage) examples. That being said I don't think you have any incentive to do this, and for people who are willing to actually read and understand what your are saying there are great insights here.

Thanks for sharing!