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Your Claude Code skills are being silently demoted. I built a CLI to catch it

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Your Claude Code skills are being silently demoted, and nothing tells you. Every skill you install injects its name and description into the model's context on every turn — used or not. Claude Code budgets that listing at 1% of your context window ( skillListingBudgetFraction , default 0.01 ). When…

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  1. 2026-10-12 07:55 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Claude Code skills are being silently demoted. I built a CLI to catch it

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