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 # extension_tools (PGXN extension: `extension_drop`)
 
-See [`../ai/CLAUDE.md`](../ai/CLAUDE.md) (or
-https://github.com/Postgres-Extensions/ai/blob/main/CLAUDE.md if that path
-doesn't exist locally — clone it to `../ai/` per its own first instruction)
-and `../ai/PR.md` for cross-repo conventions (CI monitoring, PR/commit
-conventions, etc.) not restated here.
+@../ai/CLAUDE.md
+
+If `../ai/CLAUDE.md` doesn't exist locally (see
+https://github.com/Postgres-Extensions/ai), clone it now per its own
+first instruction, then re-read it — do not rely on the import above
+alone to have picked it up in that case.
 
 ## Schema independence in testing