Comment by motoboi

Models are not AGI. They are text generators forced to generate text in a way useful to trigger a harness that will produce effects, like editing files or calling tools.

So the model won’t “understand” that you have a skill and use it. The generation of the text that would trigger the skill usage is made via Reinforcement Learning with human generated examples and usage traces.

So why don’t the model use skills all the time? Because it’s a new thing, there is not enough training samples displaying that behavior.

They also cannot enforce that via RL because skills use human language, which is ambiguous and not formal. Force it to use skills always via RL policy and you’ll make the model dumber.

So, right now, we are generating usage traces that will be used to train the future models to get a better grasp of when to use skills not. Just give it time.

AGENTS.md, on the other hand, is context. Models have been trained to follow context since the dawn of the thing.