Comment by AndyNemmity
1 month ago
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.
In the end it's still an .md file pointing to a script that ends being just a prompt for the agent that the agent may or may not pick up, may or may not discover, may or may not forget after context compaction etc.
There's no inherent magic to skills, or any fundamental difference between them and "just feeding in different prompts and steps". It literally is just feeding different prompt and steps.
I find in my experience that it's trivial to have the skill systematically call the script, and perform the action correctly. This has not been a challenge to me.
Also, the pick up or not pick up, or discover or may not discover is solved as well. It's handled by my router, which I wrote about here - https://vexjoy.com/posts/the-do-router/
So these are solved problems to me. There are many more problems which are not solved, which are the interesting space to continue with.