Trimming my Claude Code startup context

I ran /context in Claude Code and found my memory files eating 49.5k tokens before I&rsquo;d typed a single word. I&rsquo;d assumed those files loaded only when relevant. They were loading in full, every session. After moving them to the managed memory directory and disabling one plugin I never use, startup context dropped from 82.1k to 37.2k. Before Link to heading The two big line items were…