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I swear to god... What Claude Code version introduced this "system reminder"?

They had obnoxious "output efficiency" instructions in previous versions. The community was patching it out via shell script.

https://gist.github.com/roman01la/483d1db15043018096ac3babf5...

It actually improved Opus's performance too.

A few days later, they deleted the instructions targeted by this script, breaking it.

Now they're doing this?



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