Re:Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
by AndyNemmity on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @11:52AM
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A skill is not just a text file nudging the llm. You group scripts and programming to the skill, and the skill calls it.
Re:Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
by dnautics on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:55AM
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that seems token inefficient. why have the llm do a full round trip. load the skill which contains the potentially hundreds of lines code then copy and paste the code back into the compiler when it could just run it?
not that i care too too much about small amounts of tokens but depleting your context rapidly seems bad. what is the positive tradeoff here?
Re:Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
by AndyNemmity on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:54PM
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I don't understand. The Skill runs the tools. In the cases there are problems where you can have programs replace the LLM, I think we should maximully do that.
That uses less tokens. The LLM is just calling the script, and getting the response, and then using that to continue to reason.
So I'm not exactly following.
again going to my example, a skill to do a dependency graph would have to do a complex search. and in some languages the dependency might be hidden by macros/reflection etc which would obscure a result obtained by grep
how would you do this with a skill, which is just a text file nudging the llm whereas the MCP's server goes out and does things.