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Skills2026-03-18 · source-backed
Anthropic's official skill guide formalizes a three-stage system: metadata (~100 tokens) is always loaded; Claude decides whether to load full content based only on metadata; full skill loads on demand. Skill libraries scale without token cost. The anthropics/skills repo reached 87K GitHub stars. Towards Data Science
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Claude uses MCP / Shared entities / Same source / Shared topic / What happened next / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Claude uses MCP); both cover Anthropic, CLAUDE, Skill; cite the same source (Towards Data Science).
Claude uses MCP / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Claude uses MCP); both cover Claude, GitHub, Skill, Skills; overlapping topics (architecture, claude, skill).
Claude uses MCP / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Claude uses MCP); both cover Anthropic, GitHub, Skill, Skills; overlapping topics (anthropic, claude, load, skill).
Cursor supports Claude / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor supports Claude); both cover Anthropic, Claude, SKILL, Skills; overlapping topics (anthropic, claude, skill).
Anthropic released Claude / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Anthropic released Claude); both cover Anthropic, CLAUDE, GitHub, SKILL; overlapping topics (anthropic, skill).
Cursor supports Claude / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Cursor supports Claude); both cover Anthropic, Claude, GitHub, SKILL; overlapping topics (claude, skill).
GitHub Copilot uses Claude / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (GitHub Copilot uses Claude); both cover Anthropic, GitHub, SKILL, Skills; overlapping topics (claude, skill).
Anthropic released Claude / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Anthropic released Claude); both cover Anthropic, Claude, GitHub; overlapping topics (anthropic, claude, cost, token).