Posts tagged "skills"
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Building an internal skills catalog: review, ownership and discovery
Build a skills catalog for your organisation: submit, review, publish with owner and version, then deprecate. Borrows ideas from public registries.
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Ops series: turning runbooks into skills without losing control
Runbook automation AI done safely: turn a runbook into a skill plus narrowly scoped tools with approvals. A step-by-step conversion guide for ops teams.
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AGENTS.md: one predictable place for project context
AGENTS.md is a Markdown file at the repository root with build steps, conventions and limits for coding agents. What belongs in it and what in skills.
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Versioning agent skills like any other dependency
Skill versioning treats agent skills as dependencies: semantic versions, changelog, pinning and evals that guard upgrades. What counts as a breaking change.
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Third-party skills are supply chain: an agent skill security checklist
Agent skill security starts with treating third-party skills as dependencies. A checklist for provenance, pinning, full review and least privilege.
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Anatomy of an agent skill: SKILL.md, progressive disclosure and scope
SKILL.md is the entry point of an agent skill: its short description decides when the rest loads. Progressive disclosure, a minimal skill and scoping rules.
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Tool, skill or prompt? Three ways to give an agent what it needs
Agent skills vs tools vs prompts: a tool acts, a skill packages know-how loaded on demand, a prompt is standing text. Includes a decision table.