Do Codex skills save tokens? A six-run task-size benchmark
Details
- External ID
- 49150997
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Do Codex skills save tokens? A six-run task-size benchmark
- Website domain
- chatgpt.site
- Launched
- Aug. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.40793010752688175
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI coding agents and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- benchmark of codex skills token efficiency
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an informational benchmark report and static web page evaluating token usage across prompt variations.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Concerns raised: Inconsistent effectiveness - some tools help with structuring work while others only save minor tokens
Competitors
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Attention rank: #846 of 1490 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 278 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Astra-Ares · github · 2026-09-22 · 282 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- nix-skills · github · 2026-09-22 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Skillshare · hn · 2026-01-14 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- CodexDesk · github · 2026-09-23 · 223 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- building-with-jev-skill · github · 2026-09-17 · 128 upvotes · similarity 0.53
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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