Comment by CuriouslyC
3 months ago
Claude Skills are just good documentation wrapped into Anthropic's API in a proprietary way that's designed to foster lock-in.
3 months ago
Claude Skills are just good documentation wrapped into Anthropic's API in a proprietary way that's designed to foster lock-in.
How are skills vendor lock-in when they're just Markdown files that any LLM can read? You are not locked to Anthropic at all.
The API runs your skills, it's not client side coordinated. You have to replicate the skill-running behavior locally.
Claude just reads the SKILL.md frontmatter into initial context and when the instructions match it reads the rest of the SKILL.md. Every LLM can do that.
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