Robyn AndersonCEO, Jam Ai · AI Implementation & Business Development Leader

Claude Skill Best Practices

20 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this instructional video, Robyn Anderson warns that users often overload their AI assistants with many custom "skills" (keyword-triggered functionalities). She explains that AI models, such as Anthropic's Claude, may start ignoring or misusing older or rarely used skills, especially if they were added more than 30 days ago, leading to wasted tokens and sub‑optimal performance. Anderson cites Anthropic’s guidance that excessive skill clutter can cause the model to ignore user input. To address this, she offers a prompt that audits a user's entire skill setup, removes unused or outdated skills, and reorganizes the remaining ones so the AI can better understand the user's intent and suggest more efficient workflows. She emphasizes that regular, weekly skill pruning keeps the AI responsive, future‑proofs workflows, and reduces token consumption. The video ends with a call‑to‑action: viewers should save the video, comment "jam," and she will provide the full audit prompt.

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You guys are getting a little bit skill happy and I have to help you. You may have noticed that you're commenting all these keywords to get your favorite influencer skills, but when you install them, your AI is probably ignoring you half the time and not using them. And that's because AI models are improving so fast. So if you installed a skill over 30 days ago, there's a good chance your AI is actually ignoring it. Anthropic even says that if you have too much stuff on your setup, the bot will start to ignore you. So that's why the smartest people in AI are actually deleting their skills on a weekly basis. So I want to help you get there. So first you're going to use this prompt, which actually audits your entire setup. It cuts all the waste and then it reorganizes your whole structure so that the agents can understand what it was you were trying to do, but they'll figure out a better way to do it. So that way the AI gets the gist, but it's going to figure out the best way to do it rather than following old news from 6 months ago. This will actually future-proof you for future workflows, and it'll also help you burn less tokens because when these AIs are trying to use these old skills, they're burning tokens trying to figure it out. Now, obviously don't go deleting all of your skills, but I want you to make sure that you're, you're keeping the ones that you use and you're getting rid of the ones that you don't. You don't want to confuse the robots, people. So save this video and comment jam, and I'll send you the entire prompt to help you clean up your skills.