Skill dehydration
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Avi Chawla· 2026-04-03 06:36
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/skills/)- plugins- API- comm ...