02:17
2026-09-12
dev.to
ai-agents
We cut CLAUDE.md to 33KB. Eighteen days later it was 45KB again: what a size cap missed and a structure test caught
A developer's agent instruction file, CLAUDE.md, was cut from 548KB to 33KB on 2026-08-18 and given a 45KB size cap, but by 2026-09-05 it had grown back to 44,992 bytes, just eight bytes under the lim…