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REA vs leanrea: Skill or MCP for Reverse Engineering Agents?
leanrea is an 8 KB skill pitched as a replacement for the REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) MCP server. What its benchmark shows, what it skips, and which to install.
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Agent Skills Moves to the Agentic AI Foundation: What Changes
Anthropic donated the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation on October 22, 2026. What moves, what stays the same, and what to check in your own SKILL.md files on Monday.
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How to Publish a Plugin to the Claude Directory (Developer Portal Guide)
Submit a plugin to the Claude directory: validate it, clear the security scan, publish, and read 90 days of usage analytics. Needs a paid plan.
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Claude Files API and Skills API Are GA: How to Migrate Off the Beta Headers
Claude Files API and Skills API are GA: drop two beta headers, add file expiry up to 90 days, and switch to page cursors. Type-checked TS and Python steps.
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Custom GPTs Retire Dec 11, 2026: How to Migrate to Plugins
Custom GPTs retire Dec 11, 2026. Instructions and files migrate to a ChatGPT plugin automatically; custom actions do not. Here is the developer plan.
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Melty Game Mashups: How Claude Code Builds Them
Melty is a free Windows launcher for AI-built game mashups. How the Claude Code and Codex workflow works, the open skill pack, and the modder backlash.
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Hermes Agent Guide (2026): What It Is, Local Setup With Ollama, Skills, and Hermes vs OpenClaw
Hermes Agent is Nous Research's open-source, self-improving AI agent. Run it locally with Ollama, see how its skills system works, and compare it with OpenClaw.
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Claude Code Plugin Evals Make Agent Extensions Testable
Claude Code plugin evals score a plugin against a no-plugin baseline, write JSON and HTML reports and gate CI, making plugins testable agent infrastructure.
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Vercel Skill Packs: The Distribution Layer for Agent Skills Just Landed
Vercel Skill Packs bundle agent skills into one installable, unlisted pack on skills.sh. How packs work, what they mean for teams, and the trust questions.
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Agent Plugins 1.0.0: One Package Format for Agent Skills and MCP Servers
Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is an open standard that packages Agent Skills and MCP servers into one plugin, with ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor and Copilot support at launch.
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SkillSV: A Shapley Framework That Values the Lines Inside an Agent Skill
SkillSV is a Shapley framework that values the rules, examples and scripts inside an agent skill, cutting skills to 69% of tokens without significant loss.
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SIGIL Compiles Agent Skills into Harnesses: Prose Runs Skip 44% of Mandated Steps
SIGIL compiles prose SKILL.md files into typed agent harnesses. Prose runs execute 56% of mandated steps; compiled harnesses reach 86% with 0.58x the tokens.
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MCP vs Agent Skills: When to Use Which (and Why You Need Both)
MCP vs Agent Skills: MCP gives agents live access to tools and data, Skills give them packaged procedure. The decision rule for when to use which, or both.
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