My CLAUDE.md was 48,000 tokens. I cut it to 4,400 — and then measured whether that broke anything.
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Every session in my repo started by loading a 194,492-character CLAUDE.md . That is roughly 48,600 tokens, on every single message , and about 4.9× the size at which Claude Code starts warning you about a memory file. Disclaimer: This guide and the accompanying scripts were generated with the assis…
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My CLAUDE.md was 48,000 tokens. I cut it to 4,400 — and then measured whether that broke anything.