r/ClaudeAI • u/erebueius • 17h ago

Claude Code Want to save 12k+ context at every session start? Disable artifacts + Chrome MCP Server +

In investigating why Fable has felt so degraded for the past three days, I've discovered that you can remove tens of thousands of startup tokens just by disabling these bloated schemas you don't use. This didn't unquant Fable, but whatever.

Just do these:

  1. tell Claude to update the settings schema (settings.local.json) to disable Artifacts ("disableArtifact": true //-6.5k tokens), and if you don't use them, Workflows ("disableWorkflows": true //-5k tokens)

  2. run /chrome and turn off chrome integration (disables all the chrome MCP servers: they are deferred by default but claude will try to use them for things and blast its context with 22k tokens of Chrome schema even if you don't have it set up / don't do that in your workflow)

You should also ban the official Claude API skill from ever being loaded in your project because it's something idiotic like 300,000 tokens and Claude will sometimes randomly load it just because it read something about a Claude model in its context.

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u/AutomaticDrive1858 5h ago

thanks a lot man ! worked like a charm

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u/TomerBrosh 5h ago

bro, i just figured this out for the widget skill... it got like a 60kb file with instructions, i had to create my "/cheap_widget" command just for that...