INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX TONIGHT Watch this instead It is the clearest explanation of how Claude agents actually work that I have ever seen And it explains why yours keeps disappointing you The problem is never the model Claude and GPT are exceptional right now The variable is always the context you give them Here is what most people get wrong: They fill their agent.md with 1000 lines of instructions That is 7000 tokens burning on every single run The agent gets slower and dumber the more you add Here is what actually works: Skills.md files The full instructions only load when the agent needs that specific skill Everything else stays at 50 tokens Your context window stays lean Your agent stays sharp And here is the part nobody talks about Do not write the skill yourself Run the workflow by hand with the agent first Walk it through every step Correct it in real time Once you have one full successful run Ask the agent to write the skill itself It will write a better one than you Because it has the full context of what actually worked One more thing Sub agents are something you earn Not something you set up on day one Start with one agent Build one workflow Turn it into one skill Then add another The people who set up 15 sub agents on day one and wonder why nothing works Skipped every single step that makes it run The models are not the problem They never were I give away this stuff for free I just want you to win Watch the full breakdown below(CyrilXBT)