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Comment by theshrike79

7 months ago

Skills can contain scripts, making them a lot more versatile than just a document.

Of course any LLM can write any script based on a document, but that's not very deterministic.

A good example is Anthropic's PDF creator skill. It has the basic english instructions as well as actual Python code to generate PDFs

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rfw300  7 months ago

This strikes me as entirely logical in the short run, and an insane way of packaging software that we will certainly regret in the long run.

joe_the_user  7 months ago

"Just a document" can certainly contain a script or code or whatever.

  • theshrike79  7 months ago

    Of course, but the agent can't run a code block in a readme.

    It _can_ run a PEP723 script without any specific setup (as long as uv and python are installed). It will automatically create a virtual environment AND install all dependencies. All with a single command without polluting the context with tons of setup.