🛠 The Mistake in Using Agent Skills
The current approach to creating skills for agents is often ineffective: attempting to force an AI to write a skill for a task it cannot solve itself turns it into a useless set of reasoning.
🌍 A paradigm shift in AI agent development from simple prompts to structured tools with external resources. This emphasizes the importance of functional capabilities rather than just text instructions.
👤 Instead of asking an AI to "write an instruction," it is better to give it ready-made tools and documentation. A real skill is a set of files (scripts and documentation) that help the agent in its work.
Source 1: https://notes.ansonbiggs.com/youre-probably-using-agent-skills-wrong/