{
  "id": 625092,
  "title": "Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/why-does-claude-md-keep-growing-catastrophic-remembering-in-agentic",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-11T16:00:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11095v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Agentic coding READMEs like CLAUDE.md grow without bound in real repositories, stopping only when the repository retires or someone rewrites the file wholesale. We trace this to imperfect recall: appending an instruction is always cheap, but once an instruction's rationale is gone, deleting it without risking a correctness regression costs O(2^|D|) in a prompt of |D| instructions. We name the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}