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Your skill file is too big: the 6KB line, measured
Community description: Skill files — the markdown instruction files coding agents load at runtime, whether you call them...
Dev.to | Oct 18, 2026 | Dawncoral
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Same system prompt. max_tokens pinned at 16,000. The only thing that changed was file size. Same size class, different file: the naturally bloated 9. 2KB file died at 50% where the hand-padded 9. 5KB died at 25%.
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