Faster Session Starts

Started: 2026-02-01 Status: Research

Problem

go di costs ~45k input tokens — reads CLAUDE.MD chain, all pre-flight guides, collaborate guides, di project files, work/revisit. Every new session pays this cost. No way to "bake" context into reusable tokens.

Options

Approach	Effect
Trim guides	Remove rarely-used files from always-read path
Lazy load	Only read guides when keyword triggers, not at session start
Consolidate	Merge small files into fewer larger ones (fewer read calls)
Shorten revisit.md	Keep tight; archive detail to milestone files

Constraint

Claude Code has no "cached context" feature. Fresh reads every session. Tradeoff: no stale cache across sessions, but startup cost is unavoidable.

Next Action

Audit which guides are actually used. Consider moving some to keyword-triggered only.