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I am forced to use cloude code at work but a good solution is to just use --system-prompt "" and be done with it. I wish they allowed for other harnesses.

• tyleo 3mo ago
  I didn’t know you could do this. Is there any analysis of the impact, before and after? I’d love to see some charts of efficacy in real world usage.
  • alex7o 3mo ago
    It shows up in /context, but never spend time validating it much. Some people run a proxy to modify their messages.
• cube00 3mo ago
  > --system-prompt "" Doesn't the model need at least a basic system prompt to understand what tools are available?
  • lanyard-textile 3mo ago
    The flag name is overloaded. It won't affect the tools available, just the other system instructions.
  • dezgeg 3mo ago
    No, tool definitions are provided via some other mechanism.
• AndyNemmity 3mo ago
  Yep, have been using this for a long time now. No idea why everyone doesn’t.
  • al_borland 3mo ago
    Does it have any negative impact? If not, I’m not sure why this wouldn’t be the default behavior. It feels like Anthropic is just putting their foot on the scale to drive up costs or for the enterprise, or push consumers to higher subscription tiers.
• venusenvy47 3mo ago
  Do you start Claude with this option? Or do you send this with every prompt?
  • alex7o 3mo ago
    yep I pass it to the CLI, I also pass --model