killme2008Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens
As with all of these cure-alls, I'm wary. Mostly I'm wary because I anticipate the developer will lose interest in very little time and also because it will just get subsumed into CC at some point if it actually works. It might take longer but changing my workflow every few days for the new thing that's going to reduce MCP usage, replace it, compress it, etc is way too disruptive.
I'm generally happy with the base Claude Code and I think running a near-vanilla setup is the best option currently with how quickly things are moving.
The hidden cost with all of these "fix Claude" layers is that your workflow keeps moving underneath you.
Even when one helps, you're still betting it won't be obsolete or rolled into the defaults a few weeks from now.