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So I was working on this local React
project last night, mate,

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and Claude Code was just dragging its
feet, taking forever to respond.

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It was brought to you by Jellypod AI, and
I'm looking at my terminal thinking,

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why is this simple query costing me a
fortune and taking five seconds?

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Turns out, my CLAUDE.md file was
absolutely, fair dinkum bloated to the brim.

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Let me guess, Lachlan.

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You had the entire directory tree and
three API schemas pasted right in there,

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didn't you?

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Guilty as charged, mate.

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I had about four hundred lines of nested
folder structures in there because I

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thought, hey, let's make sure the agent
knows exactly where everything is.

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But with Claude Code v2.1.206, they've
added this brilliant new rule to the /doctor

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command that actively flags that exact
kind of bloat.

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Oh, that is huge.

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Because what people don't realize is that
CLAUDE.md is injected as system context

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for every single turn.

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If you've got three thousand tokens of
static directory layout in there,

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you're paying for those tokens on every
single prompt.

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And the kicker is, Claude Code already has
filesystem tools like find_by_name and

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grep to discover that stuff dynamically.

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You're literally burning cash to feed it
data it can look up itself.

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Exactly!

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It's a massive waste.

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When you run /doctor now, it checks the
size and content of your CLAUDE.md and

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explicitly tells you, "Hey, trim this
schema, Claude can discover this on the fly."

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It keeps your prompt caching efficient.

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If that file is changing constantly or is
just massive, you're constantly busting

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your prompt cache limits, which means no
sub-second responses for you.

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Right, because prompt caching only works
if the prefix remains stable!

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If you're constantly modifying a bloated
file, or if it's too big,

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you lose that fast-path execution.

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And speaking of keeping things fast, this
v2.1.206 release also fixed the /cd

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command.

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It finally has proper shell-like directory
path autocompletion now,

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so you aren't manually typing out deeply
nested paths like a caveman.

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No more guessing if it's
src/components/common or src/common/components.

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Just hit Tab and let it fly.

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They also added some solid git integration
updates.

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If you use git worktrees, Claude Code now
runs an EnterWorktree check.

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It basically warns you if you're trying to
execute write actions outside your

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isolated worktree sandbox so you don't
accidentally trash your main branch.

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That's a massive safety guardrail.

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And for deployment, if you use the
/commit-push-pr command,

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it now respects your remote.pushDefault
git config.

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So if you're pushing to a specific fork by
default, Claude won't try to blindly push

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to upstream anymore.

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Spot on.

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And look, if you've ever had Claude hang
on startup and tried to use --resume or

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--continue, only to find the terminal
wouldn't register your keyboard input?

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They fixed that input-stream hijacking bug
too.

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Next time your agent gets bloated, run
/doctor first and let it trim your CLAUDE.md

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to keep things lean.