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Claude.md study uses comments to curb instruction bloat
When maintaining Agent instruction files, recording the reasons for instructions can help reduce ineffective rules that accumulate over time.
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- 2026-08-12
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- Research · 论文 · Research Papers · Claude.md 与 AGENTS.md 指令膨胀研究 · Anthropic
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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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