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DAE find that adding skills makes your agent worse?

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I run a handful of skills in my own setup and had assumed the risk was the obvious one: a skill fires on a task it doesn't fit. I found a paper, they paired runs of the same task with and without a matched skill, same model (Claude Opus 4.6), same harness, same verifier, and hand-confirmed 307 case…

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  1. 2026-09-04 03:19 · r/PromptEngineering
    DAE find that adding skills makes your agent worse?

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