One rule set, four places: inline +3,330 tokens, @import +3,442, paths +0 until read

Automated excerpt

As a . claude/rules/ file with paths: ["src/api/**"]: +0, and it stayed at zero until Claude read a file under src/api/, at which point the rule arrived on that turn and cost 2,987 tokens. Reading a file outside the pattern loaded nothing. Those 108 tokens are presumably the file path and the wrapper Claude Code puts around a nested memory file.

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