Claude Hooks: Stop Burning Tokens on Irrelevant Context

CLAUDE.md implements static context injection. You maintain knowledge across projects—debugging methodologies, code patterns, security practices. Standard practice: dump everything into ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md with @-includes.

Except, then claude injects everything as system context. Every token counts against your context window.

Alternatively, you could keep CLAUDE.md more minimal and remember to manually tell it to load memories. Perhaps stored in @~/.claude/docs/. Maybe you piece together some slash commands. Not bad…

Ope. You forget. Claude gets insufferably dumb faster. You remember halfway through your session. Context matters when it’s missing. Look, I have ADHD—like 5% of adults—so “just remember to load the right context” isn’t a solution. It’s a setup for failure. No matter who you are, it’s an invitation to more uneven results.