Comment by unshavedyak

I think their skills have the ability to dynamically pull in more data, but so far i've not tested it to much since it seems more tailored towards specific actions. Ie converting a PDF might translate nicely to the Agent pulling in the skill doc, but i'm not sure if it will translate well to it pulling in some rust_testing_patterns.md file when it writes rust tests.

Eg i toyed with the idea of thinning out various CLAUDE.md files in favor of my targeted skill.md files. In doing so my hope was to have less irrelevant data in context.

However the more i thought through this, the more i realized the Agent is doing "everything" i wanted to document each time. Eg i wasn't sure that creating skills/writing_documentation.md and skills/writing_tests.md would actually result in less context usage, since both of those would be in memory most of the time. My CLAUDE.md is already pretty hyper focused.

So yea, anyway my point was that skills might have potential to offload irrelevant context which seems useful. Though in my case i'm not sure it would help.