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title: "Give Claude more context as your codebase grows | Ian Nuttall"
description: "Claude Code needs more context as project grows"
canonical: "https://ian.is/post/growing-codebase-context"
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# Give Claude more context as your codebase grows

Aug 2025 / 61,420 views / [via X](https://x.com/iannuttall/status/1959993681223758298)

Claude Code doesn’t “get dumber”… it just needs more context as your project grows

Someone on Reddit built a tool to track patterns:

\- 3k characters avg prompt in week 1
\- by week 3 Claude needs 6.5k+ to understand your codebase

TLDR; detailed session logs + context matters

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