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The Bigger Your CLAUDE.md Gets, the Slower Claude Code Runs — Measuring Context Injection Bytes Weekly to Catch Degradation Early
This is the next installment in my "Claude Code environment" series. In the previous post on the self-audit frustration loop , I wrote about a "never-ending improvement loop." This time I want to dig into what sits at the root of it: detecting and self-correcting context injection bloat .
At the start of every session, Claude Code unconditionally injects the full contents of rules/*.md , ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md , ~/CLAUDE.md , and MEMORY.md . Every time you add a rule, this byte count silen...
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