Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code’s system prompt because Fable 5 models “want a smaller system prompt”
Anthropic has cut the system prompt for Claude Code by 80 percent. According to staffer Tariq Shihipar, the new Fable 5 models need fewer instructions and examples.
Guidelines can even hold the models back because they’re “more imaginative” than what they’re given. Instead of strict rules, Anthropic now steers through context. com”>The Decoder.
