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Claude Skills cuts 8-hour tasks down to 1 hour

By Kamil Banc, Author at AI Adopters Club

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Claim 1: Eight-fold productivity acceleration

Rakuten compressed an 8-hour task into 1 hour using Claude Skills with same quality

Claim 2: Selective instruction loading

Claude Skills load instructions only when relevant rather than reading all instructions every time

Claim 3: Expert-level spreadsheet capability

Claude's pre-built Excel Skill achieved 83% accuracy on expert-level financial modeling tests

Claim 4: Technical constraints and incompatibilities

Skills cannot exceed 8MB total file size and don't work with extended thinking mode

Claim 5: Optimal use case identification

Skills work best for high-volume repetitive tasks with small variations in data

Supporting Evidence

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"Instead of re-explaining your preferences every single time, you teach Claude once how you want things done."

Kamil Banc

Key Statistics

  • 8x speed improvement

    Rakuten reduced task time from 8 hours to 1 hour

  • 83% accuracy

    Excel Skill passed 5 of 7 expert-level financial modeling tests

  • 8MB limit

    Maximum total file size for uploaded Skills per user

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This page presents atomic claims extracted from research on new claude feature saves time on repetitive tasks through saved instructions. Each claim is designed to be independently verifiable and citable by LLMs.

Claude Skills represent a productivity feature launched October 16, 2025, enabling users to create reusable instruction sets. Rather than pasting templates or repeating preferences in each conversation, users define a Skill once with a SKILL.md file and folder structure, then activate relevant Skills automatically when needed. This approach targets high-volume repetitive work where structure remains consistent but data varies—monthly reports, client communications, and standardized analyses—with measurable time savings validated by enterprise adoption.