I Deleted All My Claude Skills... And Claude Got Smarter

My playbook for growing a $1M AI agency: https://app.aiautomationsociety.ai/opaa-ads-optin My FREE resources: https://www.skool.com/ai-automation-society/about?el=claude-delete&hcategory=youtube-videos&utm_campaign=free-group My Tools💻 FREE MONTH voice to text: https://get.glaido.com/nate Code NATEHERK for 10% off VPS (annual plan): https://www.hostinger.com/vps/claude-code-hosting Check out the YC interview with Boris: https://youtu.be/qyPCVqFUyDo?si=4OVk-AqSS62wr7PC Claude Code may feel worse with Opus 5 because the skills, hooks, and `CLAUDE.md` instructions built for older models can now get in its way. I break down Boris Cherny's advice, show what happened when I tested Claude with and without my AI OS context, and share the three changes I'm making: simplify old instructions, prompt at a higher level, and give the agent a way to verify its own work. The goal is not to delete everything. It is to keep the context Claude needs and stop micromanaging how it gets there. Sponsorship Inquiries: 📧 nate@smoothmedia.co Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nateherkelman/ https://x.com/nateherk https://www.instagram.com/nateherk/ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Why Claude Feels Worse 0:23 Anthropic Deleted 80% 2:05 Delete Your Old Instructions 3:49 My No-Skills Test 5:56 Don't Blindly Copy Advice 7:18 Unhobbling the Model 8:46 Goals and Verification 11:31 Final Thoughts