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Claude.md Shrinkage Says the Harness Is Learning What Not to Say
A reported 80 percent reduction in Claude Code prompt material points to a maturing harness discipline around concise system context.
Signal contract
A reported 80 percent reduction in Claude Code prompt material points to a maturing harness discipline around concise system context. Agent harnesses are starting to compete on context discipline. Less always-on instruction can mean lower cost, clearer behavior, and fewer stale rules fighting the task. Novelty: notable. Verification: source-linked. This New Runtime record is an evidence-linked retrieval unit.
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Observation
A reported 80 percent reduction in Claude Code prompt material points to a maturing harness discipline around concise system context.
Why it matters
Agent harnesses are starting to compete on context discipline. Less always-on instruction can mean lower cost, clearer behavior, and fewer stale rules fighting the task.
Entities
Claude Code, system prompts, skills, Claude.md
Provenance
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