Over the weekend, I began building a library of custom skills with Claude. These include specialized tools for unit testing, markdown generation, workflow development, project-specific brain storming, design, & plan, session journaling, and task management. To optimize efficiency, I told Claude to implement a local caching system for web requests that prevents redundant API calls and saves tokens. These get stored in a <project>/.claude/.cache/ folder. Claude feels significantly more powerful with this setup. Because these skills function like a precise employee training manual, there is less guesswork and a noticeable increase in output quality. For example, if I want a list in alphabetical order, and I’m adding an entry to a list, it will automatically edit the file and insert the item into the list in the correct spot, whereas before, I had to remember to tell it to do so, or correct it after the fact. Claude even improves itself, by updating existing or creating new skills, based on my patterns. It constantly evolves. I prefer direct interaction over automated background agents, so integrating these skills has fundamentally improved my development workflow. I would say I’ve saved about an hour each day correcting things. submitted by /u/Fluent_Press2050
Originally posted by u/Fluent_Press2050 on r/ClaudeCode
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