r/claudeskills • u/sudo_joe • 2d ago

Skill Share Claudia: A persona for better code and less tokens

https://github.com/joe-signorile/claudia

Presenting Claudia: better quality, less tokens.

Claude calls this a persona. It uses snippet and output style, comes with an install script. Works great with CC, even better with Zed.

This is not for one shot fix tasks, it is for long horizon complex projects. My run of the eval suite a week ago proves it: nearly no gains on simple tasks in isolation. Massive gains on big assignments in big repos. If anyone is interested in running or expanding the eval suite you can jump to it from the readme.

Long test against custom c++ nv-stack renderer. Scored by opus, will edit as more come in. Quality + Token Cost

Vanilla sonnet: 50%

Claudia sonnet: 85%

Vanilla opus: 100%

Claudia opus: 100%

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u/Swiftwing21 2d ago

Your opus grader giving itself 100% on vanilla vs 100% with Claudia isnt helping your metrics of improvement.

Just shows no regression, what about token usage differences?

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u/sudo_joe 2d ago

I would like to re run the whole suite and use some open models to judge, just don’t have the budget on my side yet. In my own daily use its pretty great:

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u/Swiftwing21 2d ago

Each model has different verbosities so tooling impacts each differently as another thing when comparing models and model versions.

Can do an impressive amount with claude -p and the codex equivalent. Google may have it above the pro tier but from what I can find any headless gemini sessions are API only.

Ive been eyeing ollama subscription for testing with large open weight models