How to Use Agent Skills
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Why Skills Matter Now
Nathaniel Whittemore introduces agent skills as reusable capabilities that solve bloated prompts by loading the right knowledge only when needed.
The team behind Claude Code's agent skills shares lessons on building, testing, and organizing skills — and the concept is converging across the entire AI stack, from hardcore developers to mainstream tools like Notion. Whether you're orchestrating multi-agent teams or just trying to get an AI to reliably do one task your way, skills represent a shift from ad hoc prompting to reusable, repeatable capabilities. In the headlines: Claude Cowork gets mobile control via Dispatch, China's government grows wary of Open Claw, and Andy Jassy sees AI doubling AWS revenue.
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