We cut CLAUDE.md to 33KB. Eighteen days later it was 45KB again: what a size cap missed and a structure test caught
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We cut our agent's CLAUDE.md from 548KB to 33KB on 2026-08-18 and put a 45KB cap on it. Eighteen days later the file was 45KB again. The cap had watched the total, so the file stayed legal by squeezing its changelog while the rules body grew by 13KB. A test that checks the file's structure, not its…
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- 2026-09-12 02:17 · DEV Community — AI
We cut CLAUDE.md to 33KB. Eighteen days later it was 45KB again: what a size cap missed and a structure test caught