A team maintains a Claude Code project with a growing CLAUDE.md file that's now 800 lines. Claude Code seems…

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A team maintains a Claude Code project with a growing CLAUDE.md file that's now 800 lines. Claude Code seems to be ignoring rules defined in the latter half of the file. What is the recommended approach for managing large CLAUDE.md files?

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D. Split into a concise root CLAUDE.md with the most critical rules, use @import for detailed sections, and use .claude/rules/ files for context-specific rules with glob patterns

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A. Delete rules that seem to be ignored — they're probably unnecessary

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B. Increase Claude's context window to ensure the full file is processed

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C. Convert the CLAUDE.md to a more compact YAML format

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