alt Hacker NewsTry to keep it under 1k tokens or so. We will show you a warning if it might be too big.
Ours is maybe half that size. We remove from it with every model release since smarter models need less hand-holding.
You can also break up your CLAUDE.md into smaller files, link CLAUDE.mds, or lazy load them only when Claude works in nested dirs.
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blobbers • yesterday at 7:55 PM
1k tokens, google says thats about 750 words. That's actually pretty short, any chance you could post a few samples of instructions or even link to a publicly available file CLAUDE.md you recommend?
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tomviner • yesterday at 7:45 PM
How do you know what to remove?
I’ve been fine tuning mine pretty often. Do you have any Claude.md files you can share as good examples? Especially with opus 4.5.
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