Comment by artursapek
5 days ago
What is the right pattern? Do you just send a list of tool names & descriptions, and just give the agent an "install" tool that adds a given tool to the schema on the next turn?
5 days ago
What is the right pattern? Do you just send a list of tool names & descriptions, and just give the agent an "install" tool that adds a given tool to the schema on the next turn?
- claudes tool search tool - list of skills (markdown files) the agent can grep - claude skills - context compaction - sub-agents - plans
There is no one “right” pattern. But yes it all generalizes to context engineering.
With plans for example, you write out potential distractions for later, to keep (the AI and the Human context) focused on a task at hand.
That pattern solves a distinctly different use case than the skills folder, but plans can also refer to skills in specific ways.
Context engineering is evolving with overlapping complementary patterns, and while certain vendors are branding patterns, i think we will hopefully we see tools converge.