Defending skills: a markdown file that helps your agent deserves praise, says eptwts
eptwts · x · 2026-10-07
Quoting criticism that people get famous for writing markdown files and calling them "engineering skills" on GitHub, eptwts pushes back: regular people measure resources by usefulness, not complexity. If a markdown file helps your agent do something better, its author deserves praise regardless of how simple it is — a notable take in the ongoing debate over whether agent skills count as real engineering.
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