Friday, January 23, 2026
Claude Code Optimization
People are discussing the limitations of Claude Code's single-prompt approach, suggesting solutions like dynamic tool loading and recursive RLMs to improve performance and address context limitations in agent workflows.
This diagram explains what most people miss about agent workflows. Most Claude Code setups fail for the same reason. Everything lives in one prompt. That works⦠until the task grows. Real workflows need: ⒠task routing ⒠context isolation ⒠tool boundaries ⒠controlled
I think claude code is trying to hard. I find more and more that trying to organize things into "agents" typically just makes it worse. It's actually much better to model these things as tools (agentic tools). It's more logical.
2/3 The fix is simple. When tool descriptions exceed ππ¬% πΌπ³ π°πΌπ»ππ²π π, Claude Code switches from preloading everything to searching and loading only what's needed for the task.