Reddit asks: why do we need SKILLS.md instead of training skills into the model?
pulse77 · reddit · 2026-10-13
A Reddit user questions the design of agent skills: why should every installation maintain its own skills directory via SKILES.md, rather than having LLMs trained with those skills natively? The post touches on the tradeoff between internalized model capabilities and external, pluggable skill files, though the thread itself is just the question without detailed answers yet.
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