Anthropic Cut 80% of Claude Code's System Prompt Without Losing Performance

Anthropic removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt with no performance loss, identifying six redundancy patterns — prompting community members to share an audit prompt that classifies prompts line by line against those criteria.

2026-08-31 ~ 2026-08-31 · 3 related posts

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