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by Oskar Austegardoaustegard/claude-skills150 stars
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Distill Opus-level reasoning into optimized instructions for Haiku 4.5 (and Sonnet). Generates explicit, procedural prompts with n-shot examples that maximize smaller model performance on a given task. Use when user says "down-skill", "distill for Haiku", "optimize for Haiku", "make this work on Haiku", "generate Haiku instructions", or needs to delegate a task to a smaller model with high reliability.

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Use this Skill: https://skilld.dev/gh/oaustegard/claude-skills/down-skilling

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gapscontext-utilization.md

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Context Window Utilization

Opus: Attends well to information regardless of position in long context. Can synthesize across distant sections.

Haiku: Strong primacy and recency bias. Information in the middle of long contexts may be underweighted.

Mitigation: Position-aware prompt design.

  • Place critical instructions at the START and END of the prompt
  • Keep context passages short and clearly labeled
  • Repeat key constraints AFTER the context block
  • For long documents, extract relevant snippets rather than full text
  • Use explicit section labels: [Context], [Policy], [Instructions]

Rule of thumb: if the prompt exceeds 2,000 tokens, repeat the most important constraint immediately before the output instruction.

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

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    The skill provides guidelines and templates for optimizing AI prompts for smaller models by distilling complex reasoning into explicit procedures and many-shot examples. No security issues were detected.

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Signed by skilld at 5e58100. This ties the file your Agent reads to that commit on GitHub. It does not review the instructions.

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metadata
{
  "author": "Oskar Austegard and Opus",
  "version": "1.3.1"
}

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