Anthropic cut roughly 80% of Claude Code's system prompt
Anthropic says it trimmed about 80% of the Claude Code system prompt for its newest models, Opus 5 and Fable 5. The company's post on X links to a breakdown of what the change means for writing system prompts, skills, and Claude.MD files.
We covered some of those takeaways in our piece on the updated context engineering rules for the Claude 5 generation. The post went up July 2; Anthropic introduced Opus 5 on July 24.
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