What fills Claude Code's first request: 23,207 tokens in an empty folder, 2,664 after two flags
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18,962 characters of skill listing left Claude Code's first request when we passed --disallowedTools "Skill" , and the request shrank by only 913 tokens, because the Workflow tool's description inlined the reference it normally loads from a skill and grew from 3,480 to 20,256 characters. In an empt…
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- 2026-10-03 02:17 · DEV Community — AI
What fills Claude Code's first request: 23,207 tokens in an empty folder, 2,664 after two flags