I might be missing out on something but I never had to explain my project. Just give it a task, or if you really want to, type it quickly, then you are good to go.

I can’t imagine this being worth optimizing. The issue is never that Claude can’t figure out what the projects is about…

Am I missing something or does this project not solve a problem most regular people have?

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suprjami 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are many other posts here which agree with you. Filling context with what you think the model needs adds nothing and possibly just inflates context which is harmful.

A good method seems to be only make a skill or memory when the LLM gets something wrong, or if you actually observe it's always doing the same step and you can get the model to the same place with less tokens.

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sdesol an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Filling context with what you think the model needs adds nothing and possibly just inflates context which is harmful.

The solution that I've developed is, let the agent figure things out efficiently, without inflating the context. I have what I call a smart repo that better explains this at

https://github.com/gitsense/smart-ripgrep

The basic idea is, when the agent does a ripgrep it gets back files + matching lines + context.

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chatmasta 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I’ve basically never edited a skill or memory myself. I make the LLM do it as part of the /handoff skill before I clear a session. That also includes pruning existing skills/memories and resolving any drift.

Even the /handoff skill was written by the model…

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		It's funny because with so many different implementations of /handoff, I wonder if anyone has benchmarked handoff-and-resume to figure out what the best performance implementation looks like. I also imagine that varies by model.
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airstrike 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Depending on the scale of the project and the complexity of the specific thing you need to work on, it's advantageous to bring specific context into the session instead of hoping the model will connect the right dots.

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torben-friis 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I guess that depends on the kind of project, how common the intent is, how self contained, etc.