How-ToDevelopersJuly 25, 2026

Anthropic deletes 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for Claude 5 models

Anthropic cut 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for Claude 5, removing hard rules like 'never write comments' in favor of model judgment. The new guidelines recommend a tree of per-task files over a single CLAUDE.md, and caution that examples in tool descriptions can over-constrain new models.

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