Never Run claude /init
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Running `claude /init` generates a CLAUDE.md file that bloats the agent's system prompt with auto-discovered codebase documentation. This wastes tokens on every request, distracts the agent with irrelevant context, and quickly goes out of date as code changes. Research confirms that unnecessary requirements in context files make tasks harder. Instead, agents should rely on their built-in explore phase to discover context just-in-time. The only content worth putting in CLAUDE.md is truly global, non-obvious setup information (e.g., 'you are on WSL on Windows') — keep it to a minimum and let the file system and source code serve as the real source of truth.
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