Anthropic updates Agent Skills authoring best-practices docs
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The guide's core rule: keep SKILL.md concise, since only skill metadata is preloaded at startup and every loaded token competes with conversation history. It contrasts a ~50-token pdfplumber extraction example against a ~150-token verbose version.
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