... ignore them (Anthropic themselves cut it from 12 down to 4). files over 256KB silently fail to load. and if your .env isn't gitignored, the agent can just read all your secrets. I turned all of this into AgentLint 33 checks covering findability, safety, instruction quality and more. every check is backed by a paper or real data, not vibes. it scores your repo, shows whats wrong, and auto-fixes some of it. currently a Claude Code plugin ...