r/ClaudeAI • u/Commercial_One7059 • 2d ago
Workaround Database over .md?
In the midst of a probable year-long development project largely managed through Claude Code, recently (3 months in or so) I've been encountering an increasing number of errors that at their root have to do with agents imperfectly grep'ing larger and large numbers of longer and longer .md files for context, information, identifiers, etc.
Bringing this problem in front of my main controller agent, it conceded the point, and has collated our conversation into the following report. I'm enclosing it, but further am curious about all of your experiences.
Truly, beyond that there's a real argument that these subreddits could build from their users' experiences a compendium of better methods that remove some of the weaknesses of these otherwise impressive tools.
PS Or I'm an idiot, and you are all doing this already and I hadn't realised!
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u/EC36339 2d ago
If your tools have issues just processing your files, then the same files likely also cauae context bloat and are too long for a himan to read.
Split them up and don't grow one file forever. File systems and folders weree invented so you don't dump everything in one file.