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Agent Skills
Agent skills package instructions, examples and scripts for a specific job into a folder an agent loads only when it needs them. This keeps the agent's context small while letting it hold many capabilities, and a team can share and version them like code. The idea moves expertise out of one long prompt into reusable parts.
Key terms
Progressive disclosureReusable instructionsContext economyVersioningProcedural knowledge
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Where you meet it in the real world
Document creation, code review checklists, team-specific workflows for agents
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