I am forced to use cloude code at work but a good solution is to just use --system-prompt "" and be done with it. I wish they allowed for other harnesses.

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cube00 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> --system-prompt ""

Doesn't the model need at least a basic system prompt to understand what tools are available?

	▲	lanyard-textile an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The flag name is overloaded. It won't affect the tools available, just the other system instructions.

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AndyNemmity 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep, have been using this for a long time now. No idea why everyone doesn’t.

	▲	al_borland 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Does it have any negative impact? If not, I’m not sure why this wouldn’t be the default behavior. It feels like Anthropic is just putting their foot on the scale to drive up costs or for the enterprise, or push consumers to higher subscription tiers.

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venusenvy47 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you start Claude with this option? Or do you send this with every prompt?

	▲	alex7o 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		yep I pass it to the CLI, I also pass --model

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tyleo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn’t know you could do this. Is there any analysis of the impact, before and after? I’d love to see some charts of efficacy in real world usage.

	▲	alex7o 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It shows up in /context, but never spend time validating it much. Some people run a proxy to modify their messages.