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Your agent's rules file is 3,000 tokens and half of it is archaeology

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I audited the file my coding agent reads at the start of every session. I had not looked at it as a whole in weeks, only ever appended to it. CLAUDE.md: 16,230 chars, 2,524 words, ~3,281 tokens read EVERY session 10 sections | 108 non-empty lines | 51 rule lines Three thousand tokens, every session…

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  1. 2026-09-18 04:27 · DEV Community — AI
    Your agent's rules file is 3,000 tokens and half of it is archaeology

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