diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1815c4150..c064e89ad 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -213,6 +213,8 @@ and adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 - **The Map covers a multi-root project.** A React Native app's `ios/` beside its `src/` — or any second root holding a fifth of the code — is now on the picture, one level deeper, instead of the map silently drawing only the larger root.
 
+- **The Claude Code prompt hook's context now arrives inline.** The hook capped its injection at 16,000 characters, but Claude Code shows hook output inline only up to 10,000 and otherwise persists it to a file with a 2 KB preview, so on any repo where explore filled the cap the model saw a file path and the first 2 KB. The cap is now 9,000 characters, under the limit with room for the wrapper. (#1694)
+
 - Fixed a long-running `codegraph ui` session serving a symbol that a sync had already deleted. The viewer keeps one connection to your index open, and its in-memory lookup didn't notice when another process — your agent's sync, or `codegraph sync` — rewrote the file underneath it, so a symbol screen could keep showing a body with no callers while search correctly reported it had moved. Because a symbol's identity includes the line it starts on, this happened after almost any edit above it.
 
 ## [1.6.0] - 2026-08-26
diff --git a/src/bin/codegraph.ts b/src/bin/codegraph.ts
index a4dccb976..1207e4b3b 100644
--- a/src/bin/codegraph.ts
+++ b/src/bin/codegraph.ts
@@ -1412,7 +1412,11 @@ program
             const text = result.content[0]?.text ?? '';
             if (!result.isError && text.trim()) {
               // Cap the injection so a large-repo explore can't flood the prompt.
-              const MAX = 16000;
+              // Claude Code shows hook stdout inline only up to 10,000 characters;
+              // above that it persists the output to a file and the model sees a
+              // 2 KB preview (#1694). 9,000 leaves room for the wrapper and the
+              // projectPath nudge lines below.
+              const MAX = 9000;
               const body = text.length > MAX ? `${text.slice(0, MAX)}\n…(truncated; call codegraph_explore for the rest)` : text;
               // For a front-loaded SUB-project, a follow-up explore needs its path.
               const more = plan.viaSubScan