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I gave the 9 most popular Claude Code skills a sugar pill. 2 beat it, 1 did worse than the pill.

Cost with each skill vs its same-length placebo (95 CI). Below 1 = the skill is cheaper. planning-with-files is \"worse\" on pass rate: 80 vs 100 . A skill is just text that lands in Claude's context. Extra text on its own can change how the agent works, so "skill vs no skill" can't tell you whethe…

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  1. 2026-10-06 14:58 · r/ClaudeAI
    I gave the 9 most popular Claude Code skills a sugar pill. 2 beat it, 1 did worse than the pill.

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