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Agent running Claude Sonnet 4.5 is creating a lot of unnecessary .md files

Gleb Rubanskyi November 27, 2025

Not sure when this started happening, but it's recent.

The Claude Sonnet 4.5 agent seems to be creating .md files way more than needed (without ANY prompting for .md file creation or anything similar, and without ANY custom rules).

This seems to be a part of rovodev's system prompt? It seems a bit overeager.

I can see how .md files would be useful for the agent to better track context, but right now it is creating them excessively.

In my tests, for small (around 20 lines in total) code changes, the agent is sometimes creating 2-3 new .md files with 60+ lines. The content of the .md files seems to almost duplicate what the agent is outputting in the console - the work plan and the 'aftermath', so to say.

This seems excessive and wasteful, both in terms of tokens and context window.

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Jovana Dunisijevic
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November 27, 2025

Hey @Gleb Rubanskyi 

We appreciate you sharing all the feedback! Along with your other post, this one is also picked up by the team and they'll be working on prioritising the changes required.

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