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Greg Isenberg

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

it's then going to check its context and be like, oh, I have this skill.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Let me check out the entire document.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So it's not in the context.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

What's in the context is the name and the description, but that's enough for the agent to be like, oh, this is a skill I need.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Let me go use it, which is fantastic.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

I'm a skills maxi.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

And I'm going to show later in the episode, like how you craft the perfect skills.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

But with agent.md and cloud.md files, it's context being added at every turn.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Right.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So let's say you have like a thousand line file, claw.md.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

And let's say that's like 7000 tokens.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

You're spending 7000 tokens on every run.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Now, do you need to?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Most likely not.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

It probably should be a skill.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

But if you have some sort of company proprietary information or like there's something specific that you do that the model needs to know on every single turn, then you use it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

The thing is, 95 percent of people don't have that.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Right.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So I'm not a fan unless that's the case.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So and the reason being is we're wasting tokens.