How to Streamline Claude Code Context
Teknium · x · 2026-07-17
The author shares a method to streamline Claude Code's system prompt, aiming to minimize the context overhead at the start of every session.
Core Steps
- Run a proxy to inspect what Claude Code is actually sending.
- Identify redundant content within the system prompt.
- Use the author's provided settings.json configuration to strip out the unnecessary parts.
The author notes that this can compress the startup context down to about 13K tokens, compared to another default configuration they mentioned (Hermes Agent, with morr core tools and 60 built-in skills) which sits at roughly 11K tokens.
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