Quick summary Trace startup in stages: entrypoint, initialisation, session setup and rendering. Keep fast paths lightweight: simple commands need not load the full interactive application. Overlap independent work: prefetching can reduce visible startup delays. Separate responsibilities: orchestration and deferred work provide reusable design lessons. When you type claude into your terminal, there is a highly sophisticated Claude Code […]
Quick summary Treat context as a limited working set for the next action, not an archive of everything the agent has seen. Keep durable facts separate from transient conversation history and task-specific retrieved evidence. Retrieve a small, explainable set of relevant items, then filter or compress the rest before it reaches the model. Reserve tokens […]