skills

Garry Tan's insight that startups will become markdown files plus AI agents, turning expertise into durable assets, with commentary on the era of personal AGI.

This paper proposes amortizing the high token cost of reasoning-mode LLMs by distilling domain-specific skills from existing trajectories into system prompts, recovering most of the reasoning gap on agentic benchmarks while emitting far fewer tokens.

Argues that AI agents in enterprises are composed of code artifacts like skills, tools, and MCP servers, so they should be governed like software code rather than as documents or approval lists, since agents are unstable while underlying skills are reusable and stable.

The author argues that many research agent projects can be replaced by 'skills' running inside existing harnesses like Codex, sharing their experience implementing a Reddit customer-research workflow as a Codex skill with only deterministic Python helpers, and questioning when custom agent runtimes are truly needed.

Matt Shumer shares a technique for adapting skills to Claude Opus 5: a loop that updates skills, benchmarks them against Opus 4.8 with old skills, and iterates until Opus 5 wins.

Teknium announces that Hermes Agent now supports the portable plugins standard adopted by major AI players, enabling compatibility with MCPs and Skills while retaining native plugin extensions.

Matt Pocock highlights the /wait-what command for explaining code, such as understanding modules, recent changes, or syntax, now available in v1.2 of his skills.

Book-to-skill is an open-source tool that converts technical books into structured skills for AI coding agents, reducing token usage by 24x-51x by loading only the needed chapters on demand.

mattpocock/skills v1.2 is released, adding /wait-what, /writing-for-agents, and major changes to /grill-me, aimed at improving AI agent interactions.

A LangChain team member explains that Skills are shareable prompts that help AI agents focus on specific tasks, highlighting their value in agent development.

Matt Pocock announces shipping v1.2 of the Skills product today.

Google is preparing Plugins and a Notifications area for Gemini Enterprise, aiming to package reusable workflows with connectors and skills for business users. The features are still in development with no official announcement or rollout date yet.

Hexis is a product that provides Git-backed skills, tools, and context for AI agents, enabling teams to manage agent capabilities as versioned code.

This paper crawls approximately 821K public skills and curates them down to 96,401. It evaluates them across multiple benchmarks and test frameworks, achieving a maximum composite gain of +7.5pp, and releases SkillHub for direct user use.

Sam Altman predicts that success in startups will increasingly depend on proficiency with AI tools rather than years of traditional experience.

A practical complete configuration scheme for Pi Coding Agent, including 17 plugins, 18 global Skills, and 2 MCP servers, with a one-click install script, aimed at turning it into a powerful terminal coding agent.

Anthropic shares lessons from removing 80% of the Claude Code system prompt for new Claude models, advising users to let the models use judgment over strict rules and to update context engineering practices.

Skills are highlighted as the most important AI development in recent months, with Bolt being the latest tool to support them, allowing teammates to share and stack skills automatically.

Remote OpenClaw offers over 13,000 MCP servers, skills, and plugins for AI coding agents.

User jakevin7 believes SKILLS management has issues and recommends against global installation, suggesting they are only suitable for temporary reading and distribution.