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Shrink a Bloated CLAUDE.md So It Stops Eating Your Claude Limit

Your CLAUDE.md loads into every session, even for unrelated work. How to see what it costs, move the rarely used steps into skills, and keep the file under 200 lines

Alex Chen@nocodealex · 50,000+ follow on Instagram

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Claude Code reads your CLAUDE.md at the start of every session. A long one rides along even when you are doing something unrelated, and the docs say longer files use more context and get followed less.

Here's how to see it, split it, and keep it short.

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Unlocks: Step 1: see what is taking space · Step 2: move the rarely used steps into skills · Step 3: find stale or conflicting rules · The catch · Sources

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