In the News: August 15, 2026
A study of 247,694 instruction lifetimes explains why CLAUDE.md only grows, and shows that writing down why each rule exists stops it.
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Your CLAUDE.md grows because nobody wrote down why each rule is there
Chakrabarti tracked individual instructions, not file sizes, across 1,867 GitHub repositories and 247,694 instruction lifetimes. At its last tracked version the median agentic context file carries 39 instructions, with a 90th percentile…
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The experiment holds what an agent can do roughly fixed and varies only how those capabilities are organized and exposed. Six tool setups, three actor models (Qwen3Coder-30B, Kimi K2.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5), 65 issue-resolution instances…
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