Stop wasting tokens and re explaining your project between sessions

26•mateenah•1h ago

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tt_dev•46m ago

How does this beat a Session specific README?

giancarlostoro•46m ago

I never have to because I use a ticketing system the model goes through in addition to a CLAUDE.md file with a summary, including vision, goals, non-goals etc

dizhn•40m ago

Anything in particular? Paca? I used forgejo for a while and it was OK.

stymaar•29m ago

If it goes through all of it all the time, then it fits the “wasting token” description.

petee•9m ago

Any tricks to get Claude to actually use the CLAUDE.md consistently? Many times now its completely ignored it, despite being short, concise + generated by Claude itself, and I see bug reports about this that are over a year old

reckless•36m ago

Doesn't Claude have memories like Codex?

LetMeLogin•34m ago

It does.

dimitrios1•33m ago

The question I find myself asking very often these days: Is this better than asking claude to do the same things the plugin/repo does?

comrade1234•31m ago

IntelliJ handles this for you. Basically it sends half your project to Claude even if you're asking some question about Star Wars.

lxgr•27m ago

> IntelliJ handles this for you. Basically it sends half your project to Claude

Not sure I’d call that “stopping wasting my tokens”.

comrade1234•19m ago

Yeah but it could have sent the other half of the project too.

SubiculumCode•26m ago

Sometimes its good to start fresh. LLMs need large context restart's sometimes so they can better identify holes that they become blind to.

derwiki•14m ago

Back in the human age of coding, I felt the same way sometimes

serial_dev•24m ago

I might be missing out on something but I never had to explain my project. Just give it a task, or if you really want to, type it quickly, then you are good to go.

I can’t imagine this being worth optimizing. The issue is never that Claude can’t figure out what the projects is about…

Am I missing something or does this project not solve a problem most regular people have?

alansaber•23m ago

Nothing wrong with a toy project.

hbarka•18m ago

Willing to try this but the author missed that Claude also has memory.md

dools•18m ago

If I need context for a session then that is output from a previous session, otherwise I find any “memory” functionality cumbersome.

I saw /graphify recently which cuts down on exploration cost and seems more appealing (although I haven’t tried it yet)

zihotki•14m ago

Are there any benchmarks/evals to back the claims? Or how do you know that it helps reducing waste?

jvidalv•6m ago

They don’t. It’s all based on FOMO. Like superpowers, the more the better.

My advice: the best claude is the raw claude, with some custom tailored skills. That’s it, no plugins.

johnwheeler•8m ago

How is this different than just using a resume?

gste•8m ago

CLAUDE.md is already a good system for context window management for all the same reasons that version control management of code is good.

And keeping a local copy of everything you ever told Claude in your context window is bad for the same reasons keeping a local copy of your code called My_Code_v3_final.zip is bad.

drivebyhooting•4m ago

Why would you want a simple summarizer instead of frontier AI doing the summarization for you?

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