Anthropic Engineers: Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-08-17
Anthropic engineers Barry & Mahesh discuss their 'Skills' architecture, which packages procedural knowledge into minimal, dynamically loadable units for agents. This portable, composable approach bridges the gap of lacking domain expertise in general agents, pointing towards a future where agents write their own skills from experience.
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