
Yagyesh
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Yagyesh
@NeoTheElder
Software Engineer, NC State Alumni, I tweet about tech and politics - views my own..! I love books, travel, cricket and squash not necessarily in that order











Progressive disclosure in Skills is useful for loading large instruction sets into Claude without burning context But the real power isn’t in the markdown, It’s in the scripts Running a script mid-flow inside a skill gives you two properties you can’t get from instructions alone: - Deterministic execution, the same input produces the same output every time -The script never enters the context window, only its stdout does A 2000-line validator costs zero tokens until it runs, and even then you only pay for what it prints If your skills are markdown-only, you’re leaving the most powerful part of the system on the table
















