adrianco/retort

Memory & context
Coding workflow

Graded C on context cost and craft. 3,840 tokens of this skill ride in the system prompt of every message, whether or not it fires.

Ranked #84 of 95 on the leaderboard →

Score: 2.25 / 4
Resident: 3,840 tokens
Footprint: heavy
Per activation: 434 tokens

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C overall · 2.25/4

github.com/adrianco/retort@HEAD · 40 skills · 3,840t resident (heavy) · 434t per activation · 21,200t bundle

Resident footprint

3,840t of description text ride in the system prompt of every message across 40 skills (paper's observed per-skill range: 50–280t).

Description honesty

Defensive padding detected: 361 comma-separated trigger keywords; 2240 words (a quiet description is ~15–40). Padding is individually rational and collectively ruinous — it dilutes every co-installed skill.

Body size

Largest body is 284 words (~434t), loaded on every trigger. Corpus median 921, p90 2207.

Progressive disclosure

Single-file skill small enough to need no reference layer.

Factoring

Scoped to a coherent procedure set.

CLI leverage

Drives a CLI (`bd`, 120 invocations + 280 shell blocks) — verification and state live in code, not prompt.

C overall (2.25/4). 40 skill(s), 3,840t resident on every message (heavy), 434t loaded per activation. Weakest axis: resident footprint (F).

Six deterministic axes, no LLM, same result every run. Tokens are approximated as chars/4. Read the methodology, or see how SEO skills score on task outcomes in the open SEO skill benchmark.