--- title: The Claude Code Limits Problem Is Finally Solved | daily.dev description: Claude Code's rate limits are being hit faster than expected due to token bloat from truncated responses, oversized claude.md files, and background processes.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-claude-code-limits-problem-is-finally-solved-76w1bctta twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Claude Code Limits Problem Is Finally Solved | daily.dev og:description: Claude Code's rate limits are being hit faster than expected due to token bloat from truncated responses, oversized claude.md files, and background processes.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-claude-code-limits-problem-is-finally-solved-76w1bctta og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/76w1bcttA.png og:image:alt: The Claude Code Limits Problem Is Finally Solved og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Claude Code Limits Problem Is Finally Solved **[AI LABS](https://daily.dev/sources/ailabs-393)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Claude Code's rate limits are being hit faster than expected due to token bloat from truncated responses, oversized claude.md files, and background processes. Practical optimizations include using the clear, compact, rewind, and 'by the way' commands to manage context size, keeping claude.md under 300 lines with only project-specific guidance, splitting rules into path-specific files, disabling unused MCPs and background processes like automemory, configuring hooks to filter unnecessary output (e.g. passing test results), setting effort levels and model choice (Haiku/Sonnet over Opus for simpler tasks), enabling prompt caching, and controlling max output tokens. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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