Reducing CLAUDE.md to a managable size - #343
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This looks good! Thanks for doing this @jhalpern30
Emphasize the importance of human review before merging pull requests and clarify the role of Claude Code subagents.
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From conversations with @priyanshlunia and @matt-pharr - our CLAUDE.md file has gotten to be absolutely massive (takes up 45k. This PR massively reduces its size (from 750 lines down to ~150) by moving a lot of that context to separate markdowns in
docs/development, with pointers in CLAUDE.md to look there when needed. This should reduce token usage and also adhere's to what JD has been mentioning that newer models require less context to effectively codeI did a quick check to remove obviously stale references in the files as well, but I did not update it for anything new.
Matt and Priyansh, just looking for someone who has more experience with CLAUDE.md management to take a quick look at this to see if it looks reasonable/actually offers improvement