Developer-Tools on Support Toolshttps://support.tools/tags/developer-tools/Recent content in Developer-Tools on Support ToolsHugoen-USSat, 14 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0500Claude Code Feels Dumber? The System Prompt Architecture Trap and How to Fix Ithttps://support.tools/claude-code-system-prompt-behavior-claude-md-optimization-guide/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0500https://support.tools/claude-code-system-prompt-behavior-claude-md-optimization-guide/<p>If Claude Code has felt less capable lately — giving one-sentence answers where it used to reason through edge cases, refusing to explain its decisions, skipping the exploration you relied on — you are not imagining it, and the model has not degraded. The cause is architectural: a structural tension between Claude Code&rsquo;s built-in system prompt and your project-level instructions.</p>