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Claude Code allegedly auto-includes the currently active file and often all visible tabs and sometimes neighboring files it thinks are 'related' - on every prompt.

The advice I got when scouring the internets was primarily to close everything except the file you’re editing and maybe one reference file (before asking Claude anything). For added effect add something like 'Only use the currently open file. Do not read or reference any other files' to the prompt.

I don't have any hard facts to back this up, but I'm sure going to try it myself tomorrow (when my weekly cap is lifted ...).

>>starea+(OP)
What does "all visible tabs" mean in the context of Claude Code in a terminal window? Are you saying it's reading other terminals open on the system? Also how do you determine "currently active file"? It just greps files as needed.

>>sigseg+eo
You can install VSCode extension and use "/ide" to connect them.

>>adobra+GB
Do people actually use this mode? Having to approve diffs in the ide is too annoying.

>>within+4J
Depends on my task. If it’s complex and my expectation is for Claude to get things wrong the diff preview is helpful.

>>solumu+WO
Even then, I'd wait until it's had a chance to iterate and correct itself in a loop before I'd even consider looking at the output, or I end up babysitting it to prevent it from making mistakes it'd often recognise and fix itself if given the chance.

>>vidarh+mW
True. I’ve been strictly in the terminal for weeks and I have a stop hook which commits each iteration after successful rust compilation and frontend typechecks, then I have a small command line tool to quickly review last commit. It’s a pretty good flow!

>>starea+(OP)
Yes, it does exactly that. It also sends other prompts like generating 3 options to choose from, prefilling a reply like 'compile the code', etc. (I can confirm this because I connect CC to llama.cpp and use it with GLM-4.7. I see all these requests/prompts in the llama-server verbose log.)

You can stop most of this with

export DISABLE_NON_ESSENTIAL_MODEL_CALLS=1

And might as well disable telemetry, etc: export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1

I also noticed every time you start CC, it sends off > 10k tokens preparing the different agents. So try not to close / re-open it too often.

source: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings

>>within+4J
You can tell it not to do that and it will show inline diffs.

>>idonot+s72
I would always close claude to start a new chat... Guess I should stop doing that. Thanks for bringing my attention to those two env vars.

>>sigseg+eo
13 days ago on HN:

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