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Claude Code's /skill-doctor tool identifies unused skills and token waste

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Claude Code has introduced a new diagnostic tool called /skill-doctor, which reports on the token cost and usage frequency of individual skills loaded into the system. The tool revealed that a significant portion of the total token cost per turn was attributed to skills that had never been invoked. The report also highlighted issues such as duplicate skills and skills that were flagged as unused but were actually part of a larger, utilized plugin. AI

IMPACT This new diagnostic tool for Claude Code could help users optimize their token usage and reduce costs by identifying and disabling underutilized skills.

RANK_REASON New feature release for an existing AI product.

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Claude Code's /skill-doctor tool identifies unused skills and token waste

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Rulestack ·

    /skill-doctor: 40 skills, 3,060 tokens a turn, and the wrong ones to cut

    <blockquote> <p>We ran the new <code>/skill-doctor</code> command on the machine that runs our shop. It listed 40 skills costing about 3,060 tokens on every turn, flagged three as never invoked, and attributed 149 million tokens over seven days to a single skill. One of the three…

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