Skills Are Essentially Just Functions
cnakazawa · x · 2026-07-13
The author argues that skills are essentially just functions, specifically presented as "non-deterministic Markdown text functions."
A reply compares current skill and environment configurations to the "I optimized my text editor" meme, implying that much of agent engineering simply revolves around tweaking the tooling and configuration layers.
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