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Re:First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general a... by rjtavares on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:20AM (#46646590)
Skills may have have code attached to them, so in this case the formatting and converting is all code.

The value of skills is that they are attached to the context of an LLM for few tokens, and the LLM activates one when it feels that it relevant (and brings it into context). It's a chepear alternative to having a huge CLAUDE.md (or equivalent) file.

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Re:First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general a... by swaits on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:38AM (#46646784)
Spot on. The value of skills is using a much smaller context to improve the quality of the output.

This is plainly obvious to anyone who understands how these LLMs work.

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Re:First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general a... by franktankbank on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:22AM (#46646615)
Fascinating thank you.
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