I've tried to benchmark them the most common public skills including those for ADLC (ie SuperPowers) couple of times here https://orcabot.com/benchmarks/agent-skills. Annoyingly I haven't been able to release one in a while because its been next to impossible to stop the new frontier models from cheating one way or another.
Yeah, I kind of figured. I was hoping was AWS-affiliated lab would be a little more rigorous
I check every benchmark site weekly, compare harnesses and models, and its still pretty much just vibes
Evals showed that speed and token use improved when it was removed.....
The models have improved and internalized some of these principles.
They still have value, IMO, because they help improve consistency (at the expense of speed and cost).
My assessment has been just use the native harness.