SKILL.md Isn't a Prompt File, It's Lazy Loading for Agents

The SKILL.md open standard looks like a prompt folder but works like a lazy-loading module system: descriptions are import statements, bodies are modules, references are lazy chunks. Here's how progressive disclosure, the discovery-path mess between Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, and the token budg

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SKILL.md Isn't a Prompt File, It's Lazy Loading for Agents

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