Install one skill and you’ve taught Claude a single habit. Install a plugin and you’ve handed it a whole job description. That’s the short version of what’s different here, but it’s worth slowing down, because “plugin” gets used loosely enough that people assume it’s just a bigger skill, or a fancier connector. It’s neither. It’s…
Ask an agent to check the weather, pull tomorrow’s calendar, and look up a flight status, and there are two ways it can go. It can check the weather, wait for the answer, then check the calendar, wait for that answer, then look up the flight, wait again. Or it can fire all three at…
I spent about three weeks re-explaining the same things to Claude at the start of every chat before it occurred to me there might be a better way. My tone preferences, my build commands, the fact that I use Proton instead of Gmail – all of it, retyped, every session, because a new chat starts…