Demystifying Agent Skills: Why They Work Until They Don't
Skills help agents by stabilizing action, not by injecting facts. But the same abstraction that makes them useful also creates a new failure surface. A deep dive into the Prince...
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The Skill Bloat Dilemma: Why Your Coding Agent Can't Handle 400 Skills
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