Agent Skills Are Just Markdown Prompts
verrsane · x · 2026-08-25
A discussion on agent skills noted that, effectively, skills are just prompts stored in a markdown file. This observation highlights the technical reality where some agent frameworks implement capabilities as configuration files or prompt templates.
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