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AI Skills Are Not Just Prompts: A Practical Architecture for Building, Evaluating, Shipping, and Maintaining Agent Skills
The current generation of AI coding agents makes it surprisingly easy to create a "skill."
Write a Markdown file. Add instructions. Give it a name. Put it inside .claude/skills/ . Done.
Except it isn't.
As soon as you build more than a handful of skills, a different set of problems appears:
Which skill should activate?
Why did two skills activate at the same time?
Why did the agent ignore an important instruction?
What belongs in a skill versus a rule, agent, hook, or script...
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