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Sep 6, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Prune Your Agent Skills: Astra's Official Guide to Cutting Instruction Debt

The article explains why accumulating too many skills for coding agents like GPT-6 Astra backfires, showing how vague descriptions dilute routing signals, and provides a framework for pruning skills, rewriting descriptions as precise routing rules, using progressive disclosure, and defining clear decision boundaries and completion conditions.