[alex7o]

I am forced to use cloude code at work but a good solution is to just use --system-prompt "" and be done with it. I wish they allowed for other harnesses.

[cube00]

> --system-prompt ""

Doesn't the model need at least a basic system prompt to understand what tools are available?

[lanyard-textile]

The flag name is overloaded. It won't affect the tools available, just the other system instructions.

[dezgeg]

No, tool definitions are provided via some other mechanism.

[AndyNemmity]

Yep, have been using this for a long time now. No idea why everyone doesn’t.

[al_borland]

Does it have any negative impact? If not, I’m not sure why this wouldn’t be the default behavior. It feels like Anthropic is just putting their foot on the scale to drive up costs or for the enterprise, or push consumers to higher subscription tiers.

[tyleo]

I didn’t know you could do this. Is there any analysis of the impact, before and after? I’d love to see some charts of efficacy in real world usage.

[alex7o]

It shows up in /context, but never spend time validating it much. Some people run a proxy to modify their messages.

[venusenvy47]

Do you start Claude with this option? Or do you send this with every prompt?

[alex7o]

yep I pass it to the CLI, I also pass --model