Comment by bisonbear

This is the right direction (Anthropic removing 80% of the system prompt https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering...)

However what I wonder how we make these decisions on what to remove. Certainly some subset of the skills / AGENTS.md / prompt / tools do actually help agent performance, the problem is in identifying those, throwing away the rest, and validating that this didn't actually hurt the agent performance