Dev Team Audits Claude Code Setup, Finds Same Context Injected Three Times Per Session

A development team running Claude Code on a multi-stack farming-assistance platform conducted a self-audit after Anthropic published new context-engineering guidelines for Claude 5-generation models. Over several months, the team had built extensive automation including session-start hooks, persona plugins, and a custom repo-memory layer called gps, which collectively made sessions feel slow to start. The audit revealed that three overlapping commands were injecting the same roughly 60-line preferences list into the context window at the start of every single session. This violated Anthropic's core recommendations to keep CLAUDE.md lightweight, avoid redundant instructions, and rely on automatic memory rather than manually maintained data dumps. The team documented both the root cause and a mistake made during the fix, offering the findings as a practical case study in applying context-engineering discipline to a real production setup.
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