What is pound?
The problem with skills today
When you install a skill, it lives on your machine as a local file. Every Claude Code session loads the YAML frontmatter into your context which can become a real problem for skill power users. The more skills you have installed, the more bloat you carry around. That bloat costs you real money!
And when an author updates a skill? You have no idea. You're stuck on your local version and would have to manually update — which if we're honest no one does.
How pound fixes this
With pound, you only install the pound skill once (which tells you when to update) and nothing else. Skills are fetched on demand, only when you call them, only for that session. Nothing sitting in your context unused. No dead files piling up on your machine.
And because skills are always fetched live, you're always on the latest version. The moment an author makes a change, you get it — automatically, instantly, no action needed on your end.
Creating your own skills
Pound has a built-in flow for creating and iterating on skills. You can reference files and folders from your project, test as you go, and publish to the registry when you're ready — all without leaving Claude Code.