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Re:Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything by dnautics on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:55AM (#46441785)
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?

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Re:Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything by AndyNemmity on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:54PM (#46446494)
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.

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Re:Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything by dnautics on Friday January 02, 2026 @09:18PM (#46472131)
what you are proposing is functionally equivalent to "wrapping an mcp in a cli" which is what I mentioned in my root comment.
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