Skills
Treat CLAUDE.md length as a performance parameter — long files raise the odds instructions get ignored
Recent Claude Code practice guidance is explicit that as CLAUDE.md grows, the probability of any given instruction being ignored increases, making brevity a performance requirement rather than a style preference. The complementary structural pattern is dynamic workflows: decompose complex tasks across sub-agents using 'classify and act' and 'fan out and synthesize' shapes instead of packing all conditional logic into the memory file. Practical move — audit your CLAUDE.md for rules that only apply to one task type and relocate them into a skill or subagent prompt.
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