alt Hacker NewsYes, my question is directed around how you are determining "task result." Is this measuring whether the code works, or whether it is maintainable?
As with human-powered coding, we read code far more frequently than we write it. It's worth spending a little extra (time|tokens) during authorship to make future maintenance feasible.
My CLAUDE.md, memories, and skills are all about either (a) adherence to project standards and guidelines, (b) product decisions which impact future code, and (c) instructions on how to prototype and work in my environment.
Removing these instructions would mean more turns with the AI to get the desired result.
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in this case there was a hidden grader that checked if the implementation was correct (because that was the easiest thing to check), all 3 agents cleared this hurdle in all 9 runs
I agree, next it makes sense to try more open ended tasks + have humans (and/or multiple models) grade the runs and their results
You don't have to remove them - you can move things that are not important to every prompt to aseparate small docs that are referenced in agents.md with ,"when needed, reference these files:" and list them in form * relpath - content summary" or similar.
. When you want those instructions to be followed, mentiont them in your prompt. "Test this following procedures on docs/test.md". (I've found I don't have to do that extra instruction in al cases depending on model)