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Philosophy: Less Is More

CLAUDE.md is not documentation. It's a small, surgical file that steers agents away from mistakes they'd otherwise make. Every line you add goes into context for every single token the agent generates — biasing its behavior, costing time, and competing for attention with the actual task.

A recent study benchmarking context files across multiple LLMs found that developer-written CLAUDE.md files only marginally improved task completion (+4% average), while auto-generated ones actually hurt performance (-3% average). Both increased cost by over 20%. The takeaway isn't that CLAUDE.md is useless — it's that most CLAUDE.md files contain the wrong things.

The core principle: If an agent can discover it by reading the codebase, it doesn't belong in CLAUDE.md. These models are RL-trained to explore codebases aggressively — they read package.json, grep for patterns, trace imports, check configs. They're genuinely good at this. Telling them what they'd find anyway just wastes context and creates staleness risk.

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