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Skills2026-03-18 · source-backed
Anthropic's official skill guide formalizes a three-stage system: metadata (~100 tokens) is always loaded; Claude decides whether to load full content based only on metadata; full skill loads on demand. Skill libraries scale without token cost. The anthropics/skills repo reached 87K GitHub stars. Towards Data Science
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1. Flip your multi-model pipeline to review-then-generate. Instead of using a reasoning model to plan before code generation, let the specialist generate freely and use reasoning tokens for review. Paper shows 90.2% pass@1 vs 87.2% for the planning pattern. Source 2. Audit you...
A GitHub repo cataloging Claude Code tips doesn't normally warrant a top story. But shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice at 53.4K stars isn't a tips list anymore. It's the de facto reference for how an entire generation of developers is learning to work with AI coding agents...
Anthropic invented a file convention. It's now shipping GA inside a competitor's product. Nobody wrote a spec, nobody held a standards meeting, it just happened. On July 29, GitHub made agent skills and MCP server support generally available in Copilot code review for all Pro,...
Barry Zhang and Mahesh Murag, the engineers who built Claude Skills at Anthropic, published a talk and engineering post that's gotten 14K+ likes and is reshaping how I think about agent development. The core argument: most agent approaches fail because they lack domain experti...
The SKILL.md appends 2-3 follow-up questions after substantive answers users will act on (estimates, consequential advice, factual claims), at most once per conversation, and carves out trivial lookups, educational explanations, format conversions, code the user will run, crea...
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan open-sourced GStack and the repo hit 10,000 GitHub stars in 48 hours. That makes it one of the fastest-growing dev tools of 2026. GStack is a 23-tool MIT-licensed toolkit that turns Claude Code into role-based agents: CEO, Designer, QA, Release Manag...
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