Surely the skill for a cli tool is a couple of lines describing common usage, and a description of the help system?

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.

danw1979 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	sheept an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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...

justinwp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You don't need to install all of them.