# Working on cctop
The instructions for this repository live in [`CLAUDE.md`](CLAUDE.md), and they
apply to any agent working here — read that file first.
It exists under that name because Claude Code loads it automatically. Nothing in
it is specific to Claude: it covers how to avoid colliding with the other agents
working in this checkout, how to read back what your own file edits did, how to
verify the way CI does, why cctop targets Linux alone, why `cctop hook` must
never fail, and how to title a pull request so the release note it becomes is
worth reading.
`CONTRIBUTING.md` covers the parts aimed at a person: the layout of the crate,
the release process, and how the screenshots are regenerated.