A data-driven investigation into why best practices should live in CLAUDE.md rather than Claude Code skills. The author ran 51 multi-turn evals across 4 configurations (Superpowers, plain skills, CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.md+hint) and found that plain skills are only invoked 6% of the time in multi-turn sessions, while CLAUDE.md

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How skills actually work in Claude CodeThe activation gapThe multi-turn evalResultsWhy this happensSkills are recipes, CLAUDE.md is the health codeFull turn-by-turn resultsMethodologyWhat to do with this

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