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Context Engineering in Claude Skills
Anthropic's Claude Skills mechanism — a 3-layer context system that lets an agent use hundreds of specialized workflows without overloading its context window.
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▶📚 Prerequisites(1)
🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain the problem Claude Skills solves: reusable agent abilities without restating instructions every time
- •Describe the 3-layer context system (Main Context, Skill Metadata, Active Skill Context) and its token cost per layer
- •Explain the anatomy of a skill (skill.md, YAML frontmatter, supporting files) and how to build one
- •Describe how Skills complement (rather than replace) Projects, MCP, and Subagents
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