Optimize CLAUDE.md

Reduces the recurring token cost of CLAUDE.md (and its nested + linked siblings) by identifying paragraph-length entries, redundant content, and hot-path bloat — then trimming or extracting them while preserving the canonical source.

This SKILL.md is a thin index. Detailed rules live in rules/*.md and load on demand. Worked examples live in references/*.md. Reading them all up-front would burn tokens you do not need yet.

When to run

Run when any of these hold: