The funny part is, the vast majority of them are barely doing anything at all.

All of these systems are for managing context.

You can generally tell which ones are actually doing something if they are using skills, with programs in them.

Because then, you're actually attaching some sort of feature to the system.

Otherwise, you're just feeding in different prompts and steps, which can add some value, but okay, it doesn't take much to do that.

Like adding image generation to claude code with google nano banana, a python script that does it.

That's actually adding something claude code doesn't have, instead of just saying "You are an expert in blah"

It sounds like you've used quite a few. What programs are you expecting? Assuming you're talking about doing some inference on the data? Or optimizing for some RAG or something?