r/ClaudeAI: 'The More Skills You Add, the Faster Your Agent Might Die'

A developer on r/ClaudeAI documented a consistent failure pattern in multi-tool Claude agents: exceeding roughly 15 active skills causes escalating context exhaustion and mid-task failures that scale with tool count independent of actual tool invocation frequency. The post includes benchmarking across three agent frameworks and identifies tool schema verbosity—not just tool count—as the primary driver of context bleed. Multiple production engineers confirmed the pattern in comments, making this a practical warning for teams scaling multi-tool agentic systems.