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Claude Code Skills Ecosystem Hits Critical Mass

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103+ curated skills. Key architectural insight: progressive disclosure — Claude scans skill metadata (~100 tokens) to assess relevance, then loads full instructions only when matched. Dozens of skills, zero context bloat. Claude Code 2.1 added automatic hot-reloading. The Skill Factory toolkit provides /build skill, /build agent, /build prompt, and /build hook commands.

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