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Sure, but the post itself brags,

> gws ships 100+ SKILL.md files

Which must altogether be hundreds of lines of YAML frontmatter polluting your context.

Claude Code, at least, will only load a SKILL.md file into context when it’s invoked by the user or LLM itself, i.e. in demand.

Claude will load the name and description of each enabled skill into context at startup[0]; the LLM needs to know what it can invoke, after all. It's negligible for a few skills, but a hundred skills will likely have some impact, e.g. deemphasizing other skills by adding noise.

[0]: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-s...

Good point.

Also, the author specifically mentions OpenClaw in the example skill frontmatter, so I'm wondering if their workflow even involves CC.

You could be thinking of the Claude tool search tool [0][1], which lets it do that on-demand loading. Skills (like another comment mentioned) have a progressive disclosure mechanism built-in. Agent Skills [2] appear to be the common format across most of the tools, but I have no idea if this actually has tool provider buy-in.

[0]: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us...

[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use

[2]: : https://agentskills.io/home

You don't need to install all of them.

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