https://hugozhu.site/tags/eli5/Recent content in Eli5 on All about Raspberry PiHugoenMon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hugozhu.site/post/2026/404-skill-length-matches-failure-surface/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hugozhu.site/post/2026/404-skill-length-matches-failure-surface/<p>前几天看到一条消息：Anthropic 内部很多人都在用一个叫 ELI5 的 skill，工程师 Thariq Shihipar（@trq212，Claude Code 团队）8 月 21 日把它发到了 X 上。我去翻了源码——<code>anthropics/claude-plugins-community</code> 仓库里那个 SKILL.md，<strong>321 字节，10 行</strong>，没有脚本，没有依赖：</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nn">---</span><span class="w"> </span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">eli5</span><span class="w"> </span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">description</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">Explain a topic like I&#39;m a 5 year old. Use when the user types /eli5 or asks for a dead-simple picture explainer of how something works.</span><span class="w"> </span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nn">---</span><span class="w"> </span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w"> </span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="c"># eli5</span><span class="w"> </span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w"> </span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="l">Explain like I&#39;m someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words.</span><span class="w"> </span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w"> </span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">Topic</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">$ARGUMENTS</span><span class="w"> </span></span></span></code></pre></div><p>看完我做了件有点自虐的事：<code>wc -c</code> 量了一下我自己天天在用的博客 skill。<strong>50693 字节，1078 行。</strong> 是 ELI5 的约 158 倍。</p> <p>那一瞬间我有点心虚。是不是我这份东西，本质上就是一坨啰嗦？「skill 要短、要克制」这两年快成政治正确了，ELI5 又给它添了一把火。可我心虚了三秒就反应过来不对——<strong>这两份 skill 防的根本不是同一类失败，拿同一把尺子量，会两头都量错。</strong></p> <p>这篇想讲清楚一件事：Skill 该多长，由任务的「失败面」决定，不由极简美学决定。</p> <p><a href="https://hugozhu.site/img/2026/skill-length-matches-failure-surface.png"><img src="https://hugozhu.site/img/2026/skill-length-matches-failure-surface-thumb.jpg" alt="Skill Length Should Match the Task&rsquo;s Failure Surface, Not a Minimalist Ideal"></a></p>