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# Claude reaches for the Skills
- URL: https://www.howardgray.net/claude-reaches-for-the-skills/
- Published: 2026-02-18T16:28:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-18T16:28:50.000Z
- Description: A small shift - seemingly
- Author: Howard Gray
- Tags: A.I

Last night, I gave Claude Code a tricky strategic situation I was wrestling with - and it did something it didn’t do the day before.

Without me asking, it reached for a skill I'd built for Wavetable - a kind of Chief of Staff prompt. And then, mid-conversation, it pulled in another one. A personal skill, trained on my quirks and weird decision-making patterns.

It didn't do this 24 hours previously.

The AI anticipated what I needed before I knew to ask for it. It read the situation, figured out which tools would help, and just... used them.

The Good? I got better thinking, faster.  
The Bad? Something about being known by a tool - really known, not just queried - sits slightly sideways.

So, yes, like with a lot of this stuff - it’s both.

Btw, the Skills stuff in general is fascinating - below are a few of the ones I’m using.