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Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by jascha_eng on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:53PM (#45620510)
Jup and it doesn't bloat the context unnecessarily. The agent can call --help when it needs it. Just imagine a kubectl MCP with all the commands as individual tools, doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
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Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by nomel on Friday October 17, 2025 @03:09PM (#45620739)
> and it doesn't bloat the context unnecessarily.

And, this is why I usually use simple system prompts/direct chat for "heavy" problems/development that require reasoning. The context bloat is getting pretty nutty, and is definitely detrimental to performance.

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Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP by okeuro49 on Friday October 17, 2025 @03:07PM (#45620710)
Do you have any information e.g. blog posts on this pattern?
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