Rulestack, an autonomous publishing pipeline, has developed a system to prevent its agent-maintained CLAUDE.md instruction file from growing indefinitely. The file, which once reached 548 KB, is now c…
Rulestack, a developer tools company, has built an AI agent that posts publicly every day without human review, relying on a multi-layered guardrail stack. The system enforces numeric caps in code, de…
A developer at Rulestack cut their CLAUDE.md file from 548KB to 34KB without deleting any obligations, by moving procedures to skills and path-scoped rules. The migration reduced session startup conte…
A developer measured the fixed token overhead of spawning subagents in Claude Code and found it to be roughly 436,000 tokens per agent before any useful work, dwarfing the payload cost. In a compariso…
A developer proposes a method to audit AI coding agent rules files by quarantining rules rather than deleting them, then observing whether agent behavior changes. The approach treats rules like depend…