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Alex Finn shares a six-step troubleshooting checklist for OpenClaw users experiencing performance degradation. Headline advice: - 🔶 Clear your sessions — biggest single improvement. Every cron job is creating a session that accumulates and slows things down. - Additional steps cover cache clearing, model routing, session lifecycle, and cron hygiene (full list on thread). The core insight: session bloat is the #1 latency tax on long-running OpenClaw deployments.

タイトル: Using Claude Code: Session Management & 1M Context In my recent calls with Claude Code users, one theme keeps coming up: the 1M token context window is a double-edged sword. It lets Claude Code operate autonomously for longer and handle tasks more reliably, but it also opens the door to context pollution if you're not deliberate about managing your sessions. Session management matters more than ever and there seem to be a lot of questions about it. Do you keep one session open in a terminal, or two? Start fresh with every prompt? When should you use compact, rewind, or subagents? What causes a bad compact? There’s a surprising amount of detail here that can really shape your experience with Claude Code and almost all of it comes from managing your context window. A Quick Primer on Context, Compaction & Context Rot The context window is everything the model can "see" at once when generating its next response. It includes your system prompt, the conversation so far, every tool call and its output, and every file that's been read. Claude Code has a context window of one million tokens. Unfortunately using context has a slight cost, which is often called context rot. Context rot is the observation that model performance degrades as context grows because attention gets spread across more tokens, and older, irrelevant content starts to distract from the current task. For our 1MM context model, we see some level of context rot happen around ~300-400k tokens, but it is highly dependent on the task- not a fast rule. Context windows are a hard cutoff, so when you’re nearing the end of the context window, you will need to summarize the task you’ve been working on into a smaller description and continue the work in a new context window, we call this compaction. You can also trigger compaction yourself. Every Turn Is a Branching Point Say you've just asked Claude to do something and it's finished, you’ve now got some information in your context (tool calls, tool outputs, your instructions) and you have a surprising number of options for what to do next: Continue — send another message in the same session /rewind (esc esc) — jump back to a previous message and try again from there /clear — start a new session, usually with a brief you've distilled from what you just learned Compact — summarize the session so far and keep going on top of the summary Subagents — delegate the next chunk of work to an agent with its own clean context, and only pull its result back in While the most natural is just to continue, the other four options exist to help manage your context. When to Start a New Session The new 1M context windows means that you can now do longer tasks more reliably, for example to have it build a full-stack app from scratch. But just because your model hasn't run out of context, it doesn't mean you shouldn't start a new session. Our general rule of thumb is when you start a new task, you should also start a new session. A grey area is when you may want to do related tasks where some of the context is still necessary, but not all. For example, writing the documentation for a feature you just implemented. While you could start a new session, Claude would have to reread the files that you just implemented, which would be slower and more expensive. Since documentation may not be a highly intelligence sensitive task, the extra context is probably worth the efficiency gain of not having to re-read the relevant files again. Rewinding Instead of Correcting If I had to pick one habit that signals good context management, it’s rewind. In Claude Code, double-tapping Esc(or running /rewind) lets you jump back to any previous message and re-prompt from there. The messages after that point are dropped from the context. Rewind is often the better approach to correction. For example, Claude reads five files, tries an approach, and it doesn't work. Your instinct may be to type "that didn't work, try X instead." but the better move is to rewind to just after the file reads, and re-prompt with what you learned. "Don't use approach A, the foo module doesn't expose that — go straight to B." You can also use “summarize from here” to have Claude summarize its learnings and create a handoff message, kind of like a message to the previous iteration of Claude from its future self that tried something and it didn’t work. Compacting vs. Fresh Sessions Once a session gets long, you have two ways to shed weight: /compact or /clear (and start fresh). They feel similar but behave very differently. Compact asks the model to summarize the conversation so far, then replaces the history with that summary. It's lossy, you're trusting Claude to decide what mattered, but you didn't have to write anything yourself and Claude might be more thorough in including important learnings or files. You can also steer it by passing instructions (/compact focus on the auth refactor, drop the test debugging). With /clear you write down what matters ("we're refactoring the auth middleware, the constraint is X, the files that matter are A and B, we've ruled out approach Y") and start clean. It's more work, but the resulting context is what you decided was relevant. What Causes a Bad Compact? If you run a lot of long running sessions, you might have noticed times in which compacting might be particularly bad. In this case we’ve often found that bad compacts can happen when the model can’t predict the direction your work is going. For example autocompact fires after a long debugging session and summarizes the investigation and your next message is "now fix that other warning we saw in bar.ts." But because the session was focused on debugging, the other warning might have been dropped from the summary. This is particularly difficult, because due to context rot, the model is at its least intelligent point when compacting. With one million context, you have more time to /compact proactively with a description of what you want to do. Subagents & Fresh Context Windows Subagents are a form of context management, useful for when you know in advance that a chunk of work will produce a lot of intermediate output you won't need again. When Claude spawns a subagent via the Agent tool, that subagent gets its own fresh context window. It can do as much work as it needs to, and then synthesize its results so only the final report comes back to the parent. The mental test we use: will I need this tool output again, or just the conclusion? While Claude Code will automatically call subagents, you may want to tell it to explicitly do this. For example, you may want to tell it to: “Spin up a subagent to verify the result of this work based on the following spec file” “Spin off a subagent to read through this other codebase and summarize how it implemented the auth flow, then implement it yourself in the same way” “Spin off a subagent to write the docs on this feature based on my git changes” Summary In summary, when Claude has ended a turn and you’re about to send a new message, you have a decision point. Overtime we expect that Claude will help you handle this itself, but for now this is one of the ways you can guide Claude's output.

タイトル: Top 67 Claude Skills That Turn a $20 Subscription Into a Full Dev Team - (Full Links) Most people use Claude like a $20 autocomplete They type. They get an answer. They move on They have no idea Claude can run an entire dev team - architect, reviewer, debugger, docs writer - all at once They just don't know skills exist The difference? Skills. 67 of them. With full install commands. Sorted by use case. What Claude skills actually are A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that tells Claude exactly how to do a specific type of work: step-by-step process, constraints, examples, and any helper scripts or templates Instead of re-explaining your process every session, you install that process once as a skill and reuse it forever Install commands use this format: Key repos: Official Anthropic skills: github.com/anthropics/skills Matt Pocock personal skills (15k stars): github.com/mattpocock/skills Community marketplace (66k+ skills): skillsmp.com Meta skills - managing your AI workspace These skills help you build, test, and organize every other skill Skill Creator What it does: Benchmarks Claude on your task, then helps you draft and iterate new skills based on real runs. Use it when: You want to turn a messy workflow into one clean SKILL.md. Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/skill-creator How to use: Describe your workflow in bullet points Ask Skill Creator to propose a first SKILL.md Run 3-5 test prompts, inspect failures, and let it refine the instructions Write a Skill What it does: Guides Claude to write new skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources This is the right way to create skills that don't break over time Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/write-a-skill Install: Use it when Skill Creator gives you a raw draft and you need to clean up the structure Find Skills What it does: Searches public marketplaces like SkillsMP for skills that match your use case. Example marketplace: skillsmp.com Tip: Treat "finding skills" like package management. Before you write a new skill, search for existing ones and fork them Planning and design skills These skills stop you from building the wrong thing. Grill Me Purpose: Forces Claude to ask relentless clarifying questions about your feature, one question at a time, until every branch of the decision tree is resolved. Use it for: New features, refactors, risky migrations. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/grill-me Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/grill-me You will get questions about data models, edge cases, failure modes, existing systems. Answer patiently once instead of firefighting later Write a PRD Purpose: Creates a PRD through an interactive interview, codebase exploration, and module design. Files it as a GitHub issue. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/write-a-prd Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/write-a-prd Ask it to: Capture goals, non-goals, user stories Enumerate success metrics and constraints Link to existing systems you'll touch PRD to Plan Purpose: Turns a PRD into a multi-phase implementation plan using tracer-bullet vertical slices. This is not just task breakdown - it gives you the sequence that actually reduces integration risk. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/prd-to-plan Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/prd-to-plan The difference from PRD to Issues: a plan is ordered and staged, issues are independent. Use both PRD to Issues Purpose: Breaks a PRD into independently-grabbable GitHub issues with vertical slices and blocking relationships. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/prd-to-issues Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/prd-to-issues Tell it: "Use PRD to Issues on the PRD above. Output GitHub issues grouped by epic with blockers stated explicitly" Design an Interface Purpose: Generates multiple radically different interface designs for a module using parallel sub-agents. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/design-an-interface Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/design-an-interface Not just one design - you get 3-5 competing options with different tradeoffs. Pick the one that makes sense for your constraints Request Refactor Plan Purpose: Creates a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits via user interview, then files it as a GitHub issue. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/request-refactor-plan Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/request-refactor-plan Code development skills These skills turn Claude into a disciplined engineering partner, not a code autocomplete toy. TDD Purpose: Forces a strict test-first, red-green-refactor loop. Builds features or fixes bugs one vertical slice at a time. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/tdd Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/tdd You get: Failing tests first Then minimal code to pass them Then a refactor pass, still under tests Triage Issue Purpose: Investigates a bug by exploring the codebase, identifies the root cause, and files a GitHub issue with a TDD-based fix plan. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/triage-issue Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/triage-issue This is the "I have no idea why this is broken" skill. It does the detective work first, then gives you a structured plan to fix it properly QA Purpose: Runs a full QA pass over a feature with issue breakdown that includes blocking relationships. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/qa Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/qa Use it before every PR: Surface all edge cases Get issues filed and ordered by what blocks what Ship without regressions Improve Codebase Architecture Purpose: Explores a codebase for architectural improvement opportunities, focusing on deepening shallow modules and improving testability. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/improve-codebase-architecture Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/improve-codebase-architecture Ask it to: Identify hotspots Propose 2-3 refactor strategies Detail risk, effort, and impact for each Migrate to Shoehorn Purpose: Migrates test files from as type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn - Matt Pocock's own TypeScript library Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/migrate-to-shoehorn Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/migrate-to-shoehorn This is niche but extremely useful if you work in TypeScript and want type-safe test code. It's also a great template for writing migration skills for your own tools Scaffold Exercises Purpose: Creates exercise directory structures with sections, problems, solutions, and explainers. Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/scaffold-exercises Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/scaffold-exercises Perfect for: Building course content Creating onboarding materials for your team Documenting complex systems as interactive exercises Auto-Commit Messages Purpose: Reads your staged diff and generates a conventional commit message with type, scope, and body Use it when: You're tired of writing "fix stuff" at 2am Install: npx skills@latest add anthropics/skills/auto-commit Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/auto-commit Code Review Purpose: Gives you a systematic review for security, performance, error handling, and architecture. Link: github.com/anthropics/skills (search Code Review) You can ask for: "Security-first review" "Performance-first review" Or a full checklist pass Systematic Debugging Origin: From the Superpowers repo Purpose: A 4-phase debugging methodology that forbids random "just try changing stuff" edits. Link: github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main/skills/systematic-debugging Typical flow: Reproduce and create the smallest failing test Narrow the root cause Apply a single fix Verify with tests and logs Brainstorming Purpose: Turns raw feature ideas into detailed flows and architectures using Socratic questioning Use it pre-implementation: data shape design, API surface, failure and rollback story Link: github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main/skills/brainstorming Change Log Generator Purpose: Reads your commits and produces human-readable or developer-focused change logs Use it for: Releases, internal updates, investor summaries Link: github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills/tree/master/changelog-generator Simplification Cascade Purpose: Identifies convoluted logic and rewrites it into smaller, composable pieces Best for: Legacy "god functions" that nobody wants to touch Link: mcpmarket.com/tools/skills/simplification-cascades-1 Superpowers What it is: A full suite of battle-tested skills for TDD, debugging, refactoring, and execution Link: github.com/obra/superpowers Use it as your default "engineering brain" layer React Best Practices Purpose: Enforces Vercel/Next.js style best practices in your React code Use it when: Migrating to Next, cleaning up a legacy React app, or training junior devs Link: github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/react-best-practices File Search Purpose: Teaches Claude to use tools like ripgrep and ast-grep to navigate large codebases fast Link: github.com/massgen/massgen Context Optimization Purpose: Reduces context size and token bills while keeping the important stuff Link: github.com/muratcankoylan/agent-skills-for-context-engineering Tooling and setup skills These are the "do this once, forget about it forever" skills Setup Pre-Commit Purpose: Sets up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged, Prettier, type checking, and tests Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/setup-pre-commit Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/setup-pre-commit Run this on every new repo. Your future self will thank you. Git Guardrails for Claude Code Purpose: Sets up Claude Code hooks that block dangerous git commands - push, reset --hard, clean, etc. - before they execute Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/git-guardrails-claude-code Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/git-guardrails-claude-code This is not optional if you use Claude Code on production repos. Claude is fast and helpful until it isn't. This skill is your safety net Dependency Auditor Purpose: Scans your package.json for outdated, vulnerable, or abandoned packages and outputs a prioritized fix list Use it when: Your repo hasn't been touched in 6 months and you're scared to npm audit Install: npx skills@latest add ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills/dependency-auditor Link: github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills Git Work Trees Purpose: Manages safe feature development on isolated branches without breaking your main project Use it when: You need isolated experimental branches or parallel features Issue and project management skills GitHub Triage Purpose: Triages incoming GitHub issues with an agent brief and out-of-scope documentation so Claude knows exactly what to investigate and what to skip Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/github-triage Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/github-triage Use it to: Process large issue backlogs fast Label and categorize automatically Route issues to the right person or epic Writing and knowledge skills Edit Article Purpose: Edits and improves articles by restructuring sections, improving clarity, and tightening prose Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/edit-article Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/edit-article This is not "clean up grammar". It restructures arguments, cuts filler, and sharpens the point of each section Ubiquitous Language Purpose: Extracts a DDD-style ubiquitous language glossary from the current conversation Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/ubiquitous-language Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/ubiquitous-language Why it matters: Every team has private vocabulary: "event", "order", "user" mean different things to different people This skill forces Claude to surface and define your domain language before any code is written Your codebase, docs, and conversations then share the same words for the same things API Documentation Generator Purpose: Reads your routes and generates OpenAPI / Swagger docs with examples, error codes, and auth requirements Use it when: You shipped the API but never wrote the docs Install: npx skills@latest add ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills/api-docs-generator Link: github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills Paste it into your README or host it on Swagger UI. Takes 30 seconds. Content Researcher Purpose: Learns your writing style, then drafts long-form blogs and newsletters with real citations Use it to: Clone your Twitter tone into longer posts, produce SEO blog posts Link: github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills/blob/master/content-research-writer/SKILL.md Obsidian Vault Purpose: Searches, creates, and manages notes in an Obsidian vault with wikilinks and index notes Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills/obsidian-vault Link: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/obsidian-vault Different from the Kepano Obsidian skill which auto-tags. This one is interactive - it navigates your vault, creates new notes, and maintains link consistency. Also available: github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills - the auto-tagging variant UI, design, and frontend skills Frontend Design Purpose: Guides Claude to produce modern, clean UI Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/frontend-design Awesome-design Purpose: Uses markdown templates inspired by Notion, Figma, etc to structure your UI thinking Use it for: Landing pages, dashboards, settings pages Link: github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-design-md Theme Factory Purpose: Generates complete color palettes and themes from a single text prompt Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/theme-factory Workflow: Describe your brand: "calm fintech, trust, dark accent" Get palette with tokens Apply to Tailwind / CSS variables Canvas Design Purpose: Turns text prompts into social media graphics, posters, and covers Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/canvas-design Web Artifacts Builder Purpose: Builds interactive dashboards, calculators, and tools from natural language Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/web-artifacts-builder Algorithmic Art Purpose: Uses p5.js for generative and algorithmic visuals Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/algorithmic-art Brand Guidelines Purpose: Enforces your brand system across all new components Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/brand-guidelines Business, sales, and marketing skills Domain Name Brainstormer Purpose: Generates product names and checks domain availability Use it when: Launching new apps or micro-brands Link: github.com/Microck/ordinary-claude-skills/tree/main/skills_all/domain-name-brainstormer Stripe Integration Purpose: Sets up secure payment flows, webhooks, and subscriptions without rookie API mistakes Link: github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/main/plugins/payment-processing/skills/stripe-integration Lead Research Assistant Purpose: Finds target companies and decision-makers based on your ICP Use it for: B2B outreach lists, partnership hunting Link: github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills/blob/master/lead-research-assistant/SKILL.md Marketing Skills What it is: 20+ skills for CRO, copywriting, email flows, etc Link: github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills Claude SEO Purpose: Full technical SEO audit, schema, and on-page optimization. Link: github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-seo Idea Mining / YouTube Weekly Roundup Purpose: Scrapes your comments, competitor videos, and niche trends into a weekly idea bank + SWOT PDF Link: https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-youtube Install: npx skills@latest add AgriciDaniel/claude-youtube Media generation skills Image Generator Purpose: Connects to external APIs like Nano Banana Pro for photo-quality images Nano Banana Pro: github.com/feedtailor/ccskill-nanobanana Nano Banana 2: github.com/kingbootoshi/nano-banana-2-skill Local Image Gen Purpose: Runs a local Python script to generate avatars and icons Link: github.com/jezweb/claude-skills/blob/main/plugins/design-assets/skills/ai-image-generator/SKILL.md Image Optimizer Purpose: Resizes and converts images to WebP for fast web performance Link: mcpmarket.com/tools/skills/image-optimizer Remotion Best Practices Purpose: Encodes best practices for using Remotion to generate video and motion graphics. Link: github.com/remotion-dev/remotion Emotion Purpose: Scripted, programmatic video animations Link: github.com/wilwaldon/Claude-Code-Video-Toolkit Office, documents, and productivity skills PDF Processing Purpose: Extracts tables, fills forms, merges PDFs Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/pdf DOCX Purpose: Edits Word docs with tracked changes and formatting intact Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/docx PPTX Purpose: Creates and edits slide decks, layouts, and speaker notes Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/pptx XLSX Purpose: Writes formulas, pivot tables, and charts from plain English Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/xlsx Excel MCP Server Purpose: Manipulates Excel files directly via MCP, no desktop Excel required Link: github.com/haris-musa/excel-mcp-server Doc Co-Authoring Purpose: Real-time collaborative writing between you and Claude Link: github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/doc-coauthoring NotebookLM Integration Purpose: Bridges Claude with Google's NotebookLM for summaries and flashcards Link: github.com/PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill GWS (Google Workspace) Purpose: Automates Google Calendar, Drive, Docs Use cases: Reschedule meetings, organize shared drives, generate docs from templates Link: https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli Multi-agent orchestration and web surfing Stochastic Multi-Agent Consensus Purpose: Spawns many sub-agents to solve the same problem and aggregates their answers Use it for: Strategy decisions, architecture choices, risk analysis Link: github.com/hungv47/meta-skills Model-chat (Debate) Purpose: Puts multiple Claude instances into a debate to stress-test ideas Use it when: You're choosing between 2-3 big bets Link: github.com/tommasinigiovanni/conclave Custom YT Search Purpose: Searches and analyzes YouTube content autonomously Link: github.com/ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills/blob/main/README.md Playwright CLI Purpose: Controls a real browser via Playwright for UI regression checks and funnel walkthroughs Link: github.com/microsoft/playwright Firecrawl Skill Purpose: Scrapes structured data from hostile or complex sites that block naive scrapers Link: github.com/mendableai/firecrawl How to wire this into your workflow Start with meta skills - Install Write a Skill and Skill Creator so you can build and fix skills properly from day one. Add planning skills first - Grill Me, Write a PRD, PRD to Plan, PRD to Issues, Design an Interface. These prevent 80% of rework. Lock in code safety - Git Guardrails, Setup Pre-Commit, TDD, Systematic Debugging, Triage Issue. Install these on every repo. Add Superpowers as your engineering base - github.com/obra/superpowers Layer business skills on top - Marketing Skills, Claude SEO, Lead Research, Content Researcher. Use SkillsMP to fill gaps - skillsmp.com - when you hit a new problem, search before you build Save this before you forget You just got the full Claude skill stack - planning, coding, design, marketing, docs, media, and multi-agent orchestration in one place Most people will skim this, close the tab, and go back to prompting Claude like it's 2024 Don't be that person Bookmark this page right now Copy the full link index into your own doc Pick one skill from each section and install it today Come back in a week when you realize you can't work without them If this saved you time - repost it. Someone on your timeline is still writing 500-word prompts to get what a single SKILL.md does automatically Follow me @polydao for more posts on Claude, AI tools, prediction markets, and what's actually worth your time in crypto