feat: add efficient counting technique to pagination-handling skill#252
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Teach the LLM to answer "how many?" questions by calling MCP tools with limit=1 and reading the total from response metadata, instead of fetching all pages. Skill-only approach — no custom FunctionTool needed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| - "How many critical CVEs affect host X?" → fetch all pages silently to count | ||
| - "How many [resources]?" → use the efficient counting technique below | ||
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| ### Efficient Counting [PREFERRED] |
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is this skill the right place? doesn't it deserve its own skill instead?
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Teach the LLM to answer "how many?" questions by calling MCP tools with limit=1 and reading the total from response metadata, instead of fetching all pages. Skill-only approach — no custom FunctionTool needed.