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A CLAUDE.md that stays under 100 lines: what to put in, what to leave out

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Every line of your CLAUDE.md is loaded into context at the start of every Claude Code session, so you pay for it in tokens each time. Here is the structure I use to keep it short and useful. What goes in Exact commands. Claude cannot guess your test runner flags. Write pytest -x -q tests/unit , not…

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    A CLAUDE.md that stays under 100 lines: what to put in, what to leave out

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