> Obviously directly including context in something like a system prompt will put it in context 100% of the time.

How do you suppose skills get announced to the model? It's all in the context in some way. The interesting part here is: Just (relatively naively) compressing stuff in the AGENTS.md seems to work better than however skills are implemented.

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cortesoft an hour ago | parent [-]

Isn't the difference that a skill means you just have to add the script name and explanation to the context instead of the entire script plus the explanation?

	▲	verdverm an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I like to think about it this way, you want to put some high level, table of contents, sparknotes like stuff in the system prompt. This helps warm up the right pathways. In this, you also need to inform that there are more things it may need, depending on "context", through filesystem traversal or search tools, the difference is unimportant, other than most things outside of coding typically don't do filesystem things the same way
	▲	sevg an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You could put the name and explanation in CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md, plus the path to the rest of the skill that Claude can read if needed. That seems roughly equivalent to my unenlightened mind!