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A Better /init Cut My Config by 85%
A crisp reminder of what belongs in your project config. Most hand-written setup was stuff the agent can discover by reading the code. The new approach keeps only what Claude would get wrong without it: security rules, mandatory workflows, non-obvious gotchas. Delete the rest. 458 lines to 68.
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The result on my repo claude-code-templates:
Before: 458 lines
After: 68 lines
85% reduction
The key insight: most of what I wrote manually was stuff Claude can discover by reading the code
The new /init only keeps what Claude would get WRONG without it
Security rules, mandatory workflows, non-obvious gotchas. That's it
Good job guys!
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