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Avi Chawla·2026-04-03 20:20
RT Avi Chawla (@_avichawla)What are Agent Skills?An agent with 30 specialized workflows could need ~150k tokens in its system prompt if you loaded everything upfront.With Agent Skills, that drops to 3k tokens. The agent knows what skills exist but loads full instructions only when the task needs them.Here's how skills exactly work in 7 stages:> Stage 0: Skills discoverySkills are discovered from multiple sources, like:- Bundled (ships with the platform)- project-level (.claude/skills/)- global (/.claude/s ...