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Measured against a live 1.18.1 server, the API does the whole job in about ten seconds: two cold claude workers spawned and ready in 6.3s, both tasked and both answers read in 4.0s more. The slowness users reported was agent-side. Three causes, all of them things the skill taught: - It taught serial spawning. Nothing in the main document showed `&`/`wait`, so "spawn two workers" read as "do the readiness ladder twice", which is one model turn per worker. - It had no spawn primitive. The happy path had to be reassembled on every run from where-to-spawn, a four-stage readiness ladder, send-and-wait, the fan-out caveats and a recipe with two variants. Each is a decision, and most carry a warning. - It cost ~16k tokens before the first call, at 3.6:1 prose to code, with 25 warning glyphs and 55 occurrences of "never". A document that is mostly failure modes teaches caution, and caution bills as thinking tokens. The preamble now defines the verbs rather than describing them: spawn_worker, spawn_workers (concurrent), sendwait, last_text. Section 1 composes them into the whole job in one Bash call and says to stop reading there. Two ceremonies the measurements retired: the pid poll (one iteration, 33ms, and wait-output already blocks on the composer) and reading settings.local.json to check hooks for a case quick-start creates, which always has them. That check stays required for linked cases and raw paths, where its absence silently breaks send-and-wait. The bootstrap's write condition now greps the version stamp, so a stale or truncated preamble self-heals rather than failing and asking for a manual rm. The stamp line is kept bare because the grep anchors on it with $; an inline comment there would rewrite the file on every bootstrap. Section 5 moved to reference/verbs.md behind an index, cutting the always-paid SKILL.md from ~16.4k to ~7.6k tokens. Section numbers and anchor slugs are unchanged, so existing references still resolve; all 201 anchors across the five files were checked, with the checker positive-controlled against an injected bad link. Verified by extracting the code blocks from the shipped file and running them against the live server: bootstrap plus full fast path, two workers resolving on the definitive stop signal, answers read and sessions deleted, in 6.8s. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>