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Stop Paying a Model to Make Decisions You Already Made
If your team distributes AI development skills (as a Claude Code or Cursor plugin or a shared rules file), you own a catalog. That catalog covers things like:How to structure a service
What must pass before a commit
Which internal library to use instead of rolling your ownSkills load cheaply, thanks to progressive disclosure. Only the name and one-line description sit in context until the description matches the work. So when token spend climbs, the intuitive read is context bloat, and the obvious lever is tuning descriptions to fire less.