Comment by troupo
9 hours ago
> You can generally tell which ones are actually doing something if they are using skills, with programs in them.
> Otherwise, you're just feeding in different prompts and steps
"skills" are literally just .md files with different prompts and steps.
> That's actually adding something claude code doesn't have, instead of just saying "You are an expert in blah"
It's not adding anything but a prompt saying "when asked to do X invoke script Y or do steps Z"
Skill are md files, but they are not just that. They are also scripts. That's what adding things are. You can make a skill that is just a prompt, but that misses the point of the value.
You're packaging the tool with the skill, or multiple tools to do a single thing.