Prompt of the day:
/writing-for-agents my AGENTS.md is a hot mess, propose a series of restructurings that:
- Remove no-ops
- Use progressive disclosure
- Move instructions to CODING_STANDARDS.md
Apply your work over three subagents, each more radical than the last. Create a single PR.
AGENTS.md is the most common source of token inefficiency. This prompt kills it dead.
Thariq at Anthropic just published the new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 models. the same rules let them cut ~𝟴𝟬% of Claude Code's own system prompt with no measurable loss on their coding evals. tldr:
• CLAUDE.md is for gotchas only. delete anything the model learns by looking at the repo, and spend the tokens on what it would trip over
• swap hard bans for style descriptions. their old rule was never write comments. the new one is write code that matches the comment density and naming around it
• stop writing the same rule in both the system prompt and the tool description. keep only the tool description
• split a long skill into several files and load only what the task needs
• a spec does not have to be markdown. a test suite, an HTML mockup, or a function in another codebase all work
worth more than the next ten skills.
read it today, then run /doctor to trim your own CLAUDE.md and skills.