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What to keep, what to skip. Commentary on the discourse around agent engineering: papers, tools, marketplaces, claims. Distinct from Field Notes, which report from inside the work.

The skills.md discourse is sharpening the wrong knife banner
SG-001 · 2026-05-14

The skills.md discourse is sharpening the wrong knife

The community is writing token-saving guides and building million-skill marketplaces. The actual constraint in Anthropic's Skills architecture is a 1% description budget that silently trims the labels of skills you invoke least.

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