Safe to change freely
These change nothing about how AI tools navigate:
- Add folders and files anywhere — new client folders, new modules, new content pillars.
- Rewrite any document's content. The templates are examples, not contracts.
- Delete folders you don't use. An empty Investors/ folder helps nobody.
Change with care
Renaming or restructuring top-level folders is fine — but AI Instructions/ describes the tree, so update it in the same sitting. If claude.md says customer interviews live in Customers/ and you moved them to Research/, your AI will look in the wrong place with full confidence.
Treat it like renaming a function: do the rename, then update every reference.
Make the AI do the bookkeeping
The fastest way to keep instructions honest is to delegate it:
TRY THIS PROMPT
I've restructured this workspace. Read the current folder tree, compare it against AI Instructions/, and update the instructions to match what actually exists.