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alberthtoday at 1:39 PM1 replyview on HN

Do these system prompts count against your token usage?


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simonwtoday at 1:41 PM

No, because these ones affect the consumer chat products and not the API or Claude Code.

(Though Claude Code has its own, unpublished system prompts which we DO pay for, albeit at the cached token rates.)

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