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Your CLAUDE.md is too long (and other context-file mistakes

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Most CLAUDE.md files I see fail the same way: they try to be documentation. Three hundred lines of architecture overview, API conventions, folder structure, philosophy. The model reads none of it when it counts. Your context file is not a wiki. It is a preload. Every token in it competes with your…

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    Your CLAUDE.md is too long (and other context-file mistakes

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