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AGENT SKILLS
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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.
7 min read
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.
7 min read
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.
15 min read
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.
11 min read
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.
12 min read
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.
7 min read
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.
10 min read
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.
8 min read
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.
6 min read
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.
7 min read
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.
8 min read
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.
8 min read
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.
11 min read
Wiki Skills: The Missing Graph Layer in Agent Context
Wiki skills add the missing graph layer to agent context: skills that link to each other let agents navigate knowledge instead of front-loading it all.
10 min read
Resource2Skill Turns Tutorials Into Agent Skills
Resource2Skill, a Microsoft paper, turns tutorials, repos, articles, and reference artifacts into executable agent skills with provenance. What to copy from it.
8 min read
SkillHone Shows Why Agent Skills Need Decision History
SkillHone argues agent skills need decision history, not just the latest SKILL.md. Why saving the reasons behind each change helps future agents improve them.
8 min read
Agent Studio: Authoring the Roles, Not Just the Knowledge
Agent Studio lets you author subagents next to your skills and serve both over one MCP endpoint, plus REST and the dd CLI, with a community moderation loop.
9 min read
One Endpoint, Every Capability: A Reference Architecture for Progressive Disclosure
A reference architecture for progressive disclosure: skills, files, memory and generation on one MCP endpoint, scoped by one API key and one credit balance.
10 min read
MCP Servers vs Agent Skills: Which to Build in 2026
MCP servers vs Agent Skills: MCP gives an agent access to a live system, Skills teach it how to do a task. A five-question framework for which one to build.
10 min read
Linked Context: When a Skill Can Point at the Whole Web
Skill Studio lets anyone author skills on the same progressive-disclosure MCP endpoint, and a skill file can be a link fetched only when an agent needs it.
10 min read
Skills Delivered Over MCP: Why Progressive Disclosure Is the Missing Piece of Both Standards
Skills over MCP: an MCP server whose tools are a skill directory, so agents pay context only for what a task needs. The argument and a working implementation.
9 min read
Agent Config Files Are Executable Supply Chain
Agent config files like Claude Code hooks, Cursor rules and VS Code tasks can trigger code. Why they need review like dependencies, and what to check first.
8 min read
Taste Skills Are Turning Agent Review Into Infrastructure
Taste skills for AI agents turn subjective review criteria into executable infrastructure. What trending anti-slop and compound-engineering skills signal.
8 min read
Agent Skills Are Becoming Package Managers
Agent skills are becoming package managers. Why coding teams need dependency governance for the instructions their agents inherit, not more prompts.
8 min read
Claude Code Plugin URLs Turn Skills Into a Supply Chain
Claude Code's newer plugin URL and hard-deny controls are small release-note items with a big implication: agent extensions now need supply-chain discipline.
6 min read
Skills for Real Engineers Need Governance, Not Fandom
Matt Pocock's skills repo is a signal for AI coding teams: treat skills as governed production controls, not a folder of viral prompts.
7 min read
Matt Pocock's Skills Repo Is a Better Pattern Than Vibe Coding
Matt Pocock's Claude Code skills repo shows the useful direction for agent workflows: small, composable skills that encode engineering discipline instead of hiding it.
8 min read
Agent Skills Need Exit Criteria, Not More Prompt Lore
Agent skills work when they carry exit criteria. What Addy Osmani's agent-skills repo gets right about turning AI coding advice into engineering checklists.
7 min read
Google Skills Shows the Next Agent Playbook
Google's skills repo shows the next agent playbook: product-specific operating instructions that turn docs into executable procedures for coding agents.
6 min read
Karpathy Skills Show Why CLAUDE.md Is Product Surface Now
The viral andrej-karpathy-skills CLAUDE.md shows agent rules are product surface: what the file teaches, what to keep, and what to change before copying.
8 min read
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