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Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
I’ve asked AI a few times and I still don’t get it. Why do frameworks like Claude Code or Codex have the concept of “skills” instead of just using well-organized Markdown docs? Couldn’t I just have an AGENTS.md that points to folders of .md files and tells the agent when to read them? That feels functionally equivalent to me. What am I missing? Is there a real architectural benefit, or is it mostly a standardization/convenience thing? I doubt we’d create so much hype about skills if they’d just ...
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