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Claude.md study uses comments to curb instruction bloat

@omarsar0 said a study tracked why Claude.md and AGENTS.md grow without limit, analyzing the lifecycle of 247,694 instructions across 1,867 repositories, and proposed using comments to record rationale.

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2026-08-13

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@omarsar0 said a study tracked why Claude.md and AGENTS.md grow without limit, analyzing the lifecycle of 247,694 instructions across 1,867 repositories, and proposed using comments to record rationale.

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