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NOTE

The principle of "context window injection control" in Claude Code is shared with other LLM tools.

Feature Mapping Across Tools

Claude CodeCursorClineGitHub CopilotCommon Principle
CLAUDE.md.cursorrules.clinerules.github/copilot-instructions.mdResident context
.claude/rules/@ mentions--Conditional context
.claude/skills/Docs reference--On-demand context
.claude/agents/---Independent context execution
settings.jsonIDE settingsIDE settingsIDE settingsRuntime control
Hooks---Lifecycle control
MCPMCPMCP-Tool definition injection
/compact---Context compression

Universality of Principles

Regardless of tools, the following principles remain constant:

  1. Keep resident context minimal: Resident information in any tool triggers Priority Saturation
  2. Distribute with conditional injection: Don't concentrate all rules in one place
  3. Mechanical validation outside context: Testing, linting, CI/CD don't depend on LLMs
  4. Keep sessions short: Context Rot and Instruction Decay are universal across all models

WARNING

TODO: Detailed comparison of each tool to be added

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