- In short
- Underperforming Claude output has four distinct root causes: under-specification, where the prompt omitted context, constraints, or a required format; context overload, where a long conversation has approached its window limit and older content has been compressed; the wrong feature or model, where the task needs a different tool such as code execution or a more capable model tier; and stale configuration, where a standing instruction, knowledge file, or Skill has drifted out of date. Each has a different fix, so naming which pattern applies is the first diagnostic move.
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