skills

This paper introduces MMSkills, a framework for representing, generating, and using multimodal procedural knowledge for visual agents, combining textual procedures with visual state cards and keyframes, and demonstrates improvements in GUI and game-based visual agent benchmarks.

Elon Musk announces that the Grok AI model has been updated to include new 'skills'.

The article discusses Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's argument that 'skills'—reusable, one-time configurations—are replacing manual prompting as the primary way to interact with AI. It outlines a shift from writing prompts for every task to building a library of automated skills for higher efficiency.

Oh My Hermes is an open-source workflow layer that provides out-of-the-box skills and agent teams for Hermes Agent, covering the full application lifecycle from requirements to deployment and operations, turning Hermes into an autonomous operations and development partner.

Garry Tan advocates shifting from manual AI prompting to skill-based automation, presenting open-source tools like GBrain and GStack to capture and reuse workflows permanently.

A principal consultant from Synergetic Solutions published claude-skills, a repository with 66 specialized skills for Claude Code that can be installed via a single command, enhancing its full-stack development capabilities with context-aware activation, reference files, and workflow integrations.

OpenAI Academy introduces plugins and skills for Codex, allowing users to connect external tools and define custom workflows for specific tasks. Plugins handle tool integration while skills encode team-specific processes.

The article introduces three hidden features of Claude: Artifacts (building interactive deliverables such as reports, dashboards, and simulators), Projects (organizing knowledge systems and long-term memory), and Skills (automating repetitive task workflows). It also demonstrates how to connect external tools via Connectors and combine them to improve work efficiency.

Vercel Labs released 'skills', a CLI that installs reusable skill packs to 45+ AI coding agents including Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.