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My CLAUDE.md file bloated significantly. It tried to load unnecessary skills and would retain throughout the whole session. Fixing that, maintaining good wikis and using clear often really helped fixed my personal token burn.
It’s added in every chat you start with Claude for that project. It’s useful for including context specific to your project that it couldn’t otherwise know. High level stuff like what it’s for, but also details about how the folders are organized. This saves time and tokens from rescanning the whole thing every time.
When you use the /init command in claude code, it’ll scan your whole project and write a CLAUDE.md, which is basically an overview of the project contents and architecture that it uses as context when responding to queries.
My CLAUDE.md file bloated significantly. It tried to load unnecessary skills and would retain throughout the whole session. Fixing that, maintaining good wikis and using clear often really helped fixed my personal token burn.
What do you use that file for? I see Claude.md thrown around and I’m a bit curious.
It’s added in every chat you start with Claude for that project. It’s useful for including context specific to your project that it couldn’t otherwise know. High level stuff like what it’s for, but also details about how the folders are organized. This saves time and tokens from rescanning the whole thing every time.
When you use the /init command in claude code, it’ll scan your whole project and write a CLAUDE.md, which is basically an overview of the project contents and architecture that it uses as context when responding to queries.