Agent skills started contradicting each other after months — how to keep them clean?
Successful-Tax1306 · reddit · 2026-10-27
The author spent months turning fixes into agent skills (commit style, MCP setup, device deployment, debug loops). It worked well at first, but the pile grew until skills contradicted each other — outcomes depended on which skill the agent read first.
Partial fix: a meta-skill that manages the others, checking whether an old skill should be updated instead of adding a new one, and flagging conflicts. Still messy overall.
The post asks the community: do you prune on a schedule, keep everything in one file, or let them grow? It highlights a real, unsolved pain point in agent skills engineering — long-term skill library maintenance needs versioning and conflict detection.
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