[Bug] Excessive token consumption from system prompt and slow response times in Claude Code

Bug Description
I have removed all plugins and skills, and still I start up claude code, type hello, and it takes 30 seconds to respond. An immediate hit to 20k tokens is shown when it finally responds. Lately, it has not been able to complete even fairly simple tasks, and just a few interactions uses up the entire session period's tokens (I am a Pro level subscriber). The bottom line - when your system prompt that I cannot disable is this large, it prevents me from using claude code at all. On top of this, it does not appear to be able to successfully accomplish anything useful. It will often churn for 5 or six minutes when a simple update or change is requested. Not sure what y'all are doing but this is proving to be a major rip off. The immediate fix is to not count your system prompts in my usage, and secondly to ensure that whatever system prompt is needed is loaded once and not with every interaction. I'm off to look elsewhere - Anthropic is going to perish quickly if you allow this BS to continue. Perhaps you are not tracking sessions in a useful manner and are wasting huge compute resources as a result

Environment Info

• Platform: darwin
• Terminal: Apple_Terminal
• Version: 2.1.116
• Feedback ID: b4262466-ea39-406c-bee7-60e657081f69

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