Are LLMs Reliable for Maintaining Skill Files?
vitmalina · reddit · 2026-07-18
The author is developing a documentation-generating agent and tried using LLMs to update skill files, but the results were underwhelming. Instead of improving the structure, the model tends to simply pile on more instructions during "fixes," making the skills bloated, repetitive, and hard to follow.
Another pain point mentioned is the duplication of rules, schemas, examples, and product knowledge across multiple skill files, which easily leads to sync conflicts. The author wishes for a skill system organized like a knowledge graph or a structured tree, allowing failures to be traced back to specific rule nodes. They also wonder if Microsoft's SkillOpt can actually reduce such bloat and redundancy.
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