Comment by iainmerrick

Hmm, that’s a good question! I think a bit of both.

In terms of experience, I’ve noticed that agents don’t always use skills the way you want; and I’ve noticed that they’re pretty good at browsing existing code and docs and figuring things out for themselves.

Is this an example of “the bitter lesson”? That’s conjecture, but I think pretty well-founded.

It could well be that specific formats for skills work better because the agents are trained on those specific formats. But if so, I think it’s just a local maximum.