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Aug 11, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence
Why More Skills Slow Down Coding Agents—and How to Streamline, Choose, and Maintain Them
The article explains that attaching too many skills to coding agents like Codex or Claude Code incurs context, decision, and misdirection costs, and proposes three principles for skill selection, clear trigger definitions, and regular audits, plus a maintenance workflow using Git, regression testing, and a deletion culture.
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