How do you even plan with Claude the Wise?

Guys, I need help :) I tried following the usual advice: structure your projects well, make a plan, maintain a nice & concise CLAUDE.md, start new chats, etc. But hahah here is something nobody is talking about (sry, I just had to :D): you CANNOT reasonably plan ANYTHING with the damn thing. Because its fucking verbosity and eagerness turns EVERYTHING into mush, which in turn confuses each new session/agent, let alone me. —— So, to illustrate. (If too long, skip to bottom :D) A typical day: “Hey Claude, I want us to write a document about apples and oranges. Let’s make an outline: Intro, Apples, Oranges, Conclusion. Then I would like us to look at the MD sources in this folder, extract the relevant parts & slot them into that outline.” Claude: let me check instead of guessing Clauding… Here is a coked-up PhD thesis on what I would do, had I read the files, with one honest caveat — you may want to include a chapter about pears Me: No, Claude, I do not want to include anything on pears. This is a doc on apples and oranges. Read the fucking files. Claude: [goes on to edit memories, Claude.md, and make 5 files. Each one has 3-600 words stuffed with nonsense and senile 1930s aphorisms] ++“OUT OF SCOPE: Pears. Trying to write about pears is a quack, not a duck. An apple by any other name is a rose in Spain, which is worth naming precisely. The Spanish Flu is unrelated to this. If the user asks you to read, you should read. Otherwise you are performing reading instead of doing it. (Spanish pears green, 747/747). You are absolutely right, I overreached. I should have seen the big picture. That one’s on me. Here is your updated outline: Introduction Apples Oranges Other fruit (not pears) Spain Conclusion By the way: I have now added an explicit paragraph in the document introduction section to honestly state that this document does not deal with pears. Thank you for catching that. …. Before you say “Fable” — it does the same (maybe to a slightly lesser degree). As for the project… but by now I am so exhausted and tired battling the pear fetish it developed, out of the blue, that I either start a new project & spin in circles around watermelons, or write the damn thing myself. TLDR: How do you stop Claude from injecting random, aphoristic, cryptic, unrequested shit into the context & actively self-sabotaging the future sessions?