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Prompting & Interaction

Progressive Disclosure

Progressive disclosure, applied to agent skills, means giving a model only a short summary of a skill up front and letting it request the full instructions only when the skill is actually needed.

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Rather than loading every available skill's full documentation into context at once — which wastes tokens and dilutes attention — a progressive-disclosure skill system exposes a lightweight name and description first, and the agent fetches the complete skill content on demand. This keeps the base context window small while still giving the agent access to a large library of skills.

Related terms

Context WindowContext EngineeringChain-of-Thought PromptingGauntlet LoopGrounding InstructionSelf-Consistency

Where Progressive Disclosure comes up

  • Matt Pocock Skills v1.0: 63% Fewer Tokens With Progressive Disclosure
  • Thin Prompts, Thick Artifacts, Thin Skills: Thariq’s Claude Code Framework
  • What are agent skills? A complete guide for Claude Code, Cursor & MCP (2026)
  • Claude 5 Context Engineering: Stop Over-Constraining the Model