Graduated Context-Cost Extensibility Ordering

Description

The paper's framing that the four extension mechanisms form a graduated cost ordering: Hooks (zero context cost) → Skills (low, descriptions only) → Plugins (medium, varies) → MCP (high, tool schemas). Cheap extensions scale widely; expensive ones reserved for genuine new tool surfaces.

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