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All parts of Claude Code's system prompt, 18 builtin tool descriptions, sub agent prompts (Plan/Explore/Task), utility prompts (CLAUDE.md, compact, statusline, magic docs, WebFetch, Bash cmd, security review, agent creation). Updated for each Claude Code version.
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This repository contains an up-to-date list of all Claude Code's various system prompts and their associated token counts as of Claude Code v2.1.59 (February 25th, 2026). It also contains a for the system prompts across 112 versions since v2.0.14. From the team behind
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Why multiple "system prompts?"
Claude Code doesn't just have one single string for its system prompt.
Instead, there are:
Write, Bash, and TodoWrite, and some are fairly large.CLAUDE.md generation, session title generation, etc. featuring their own systems prompts.The result—110+ stri...