Comment by adastra22
This one is already out of date. The bit on the top about allocating space in CLAUDE.md for each tool is largely a waste of tokens these days. Use the skills feature.
This one is already out of date. The bit on the top about allocating space in CLAUDE.md for each tool is largely a waste of tokens these days. Use the skills feature.
The skill lets you compress the amount loaded to just the briefest description, with the “where do I go to get more info” being implicit. You should use a SKILL.md for evry added tool. At which point, putting instructions in CLAIDE.md becomes redundant and confusing to the LLM.
It's a balance and we use both.
Skills doesn't totally deprecate documenting things in CLAUDE.md but agree that a lot of these can be defined as skills instead.
Skill frontmatter also still sits in the global context so it's not really a token optimization either.