[coldtea]

>These files are harder for humans to read now. There's no getting around that. Compact notation is fast to parse programmatically but slower to scan with your eyes.

That's not a problem. You can have the full version for you, and "compress" programmatically the claude-bound version before claude reads it.

[jchilcher]

This is the cleaner solution honestly. Keep the human-readable version as source of truth, generate the compressed version as a build step. I've been doing it manually but automating that transform is the obvious next evolution. Might be worth a follow-up post.