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Your CLAUDE.md Is Too Long: What to Cut So Claude Code Follows It

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You added a rule to your CLAUDE.md . Claude Code ignored it. So you added it again, in capitals, a bit further down. A month later the file is 600 lines long, and Claude still forgets to run the tests. The fix is almost never another line. It's fewer lines. Anthropic's own Claude Code best practice…

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  1. 2026-10-19 07:27 · DEV Community — AI
    Your CLAUDE.md Is Too Long: What to Cut So Claude Code Follows It

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