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   <strong>80-94% less code &middot; 3-6&times; faster &middot; 47-77% cheaper</strong><br>
-  <sub>Median of 10 runs across Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. <a href="benchmarks/">Reproduce it yourself.</a></sub>
+  <sub>Per-task code, latency, and cost on the Claude API, not your plan's quota. The ruleset re-injects each turn, so on one short prompt that overhead can outweigh the savings. Median of 10 runs across Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. <a href="benchmarks/">Reproduce it yourself.</a></sub>
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