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We cut CLAUDE.md to 33KB. Eighteen days later it was 45KB again: what a size cap missed and a structure test caught

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We cut our agent's CLAUDE.md from 548KB to 33KB on 2026-08-18 and put a 45KB cap on it. Eighteen...
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