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How I run my Claude setup · Problem 5 of 11

Long Claude chats get worse, and hit the limit faster.

The longer a chat runs, the more the answers drift, and Anthropic's own help page says long conversations use up more of your usage limit, so one giant chat gets worse and runs out faster.

Lewis Crook · Written November 2026

Try it on your own Claude

Anthropic's own help page says "longer conversations that trigger automatic context management consume more of your usage limit", and the answers drift as well. My rule is the more complex and bloated a chat gets, the more it needs its own chat, and if a topic's completely different and I'll be working on it regularly, it gets its own project.

Send this in a chat you've been using for something else
Different thing. I need to start planning my team's quarterly reviews, and I'll be doing these every quarter.

If it just starts planning, it'll happily let one chat turn into ten different jobs. Set up properly, it suggests its own project and offers to write its first instructions.

What my setup does about it

The kit has how I decide when a chat needs splitting, and the instructions that get Claude to suggest the split itself and write the new project's first instructions.

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