Ask Claude to audit and auto-compact your Skills — an Opus 5.5 tuning workflow

YashasGunderia · x · 2026-10-15

A user shares a practical Claude Code optimization workflow:

Ask Claude to review your usage, sessions, unused skills and plugins, and it will automatically compact skills — newer models are more capable and don't need lengthy descriptions, so it deletes what's unnecessary and finds more relevant skills.
Recommends Opus 5.5 on medium/high mode, claiming it beats xhigh and max on performance and software work.

The author also asks Anthropic whether weekly subscription limits will rise as more compute is unlocked.