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How Claude Code Loads CLAUDE.md and Skills, and How to Use It

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In the first article of this series we put four 2026 context-engineering principles on one map. This one covers the first of them: how Claude Code actually loads context, why extra context costs accuracy and not just tokens, and what we did about it on our own systems. TL;DR. The root CLAUDE.md is…

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  1. 2026-10-29 07:06 · DEV Community — AI
    How Claude Code Loads CLAUDE.md and Skills, and How to Use It

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