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My routine Claude Code skills now run on Haiku. Output quality didn't change.
Opus plans the script, Sonnet writes it and wraps it in a skill, and Haiku runs it.
If a skill breaks on Haiku, it's doing too much thinking.
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Reduce Your AI Skill Costs
Frontier models are for thinking, but you don’t need all the power for everything. Here is the workflow I use every day, and the skills that keep the costs down.