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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

Where you meet it in the real world

Document creation, code review checklists, team-specific workflows for agents