Dev questions usefulness of 'Skills': 'it made my agent dumber'
ddaydrm · reddit · 2026-10-28
A Reddit developer reports that after trying multiple Skills repos—which mostly amount to MD files defining what a Skill is—he found them useless and even counterproductive. The thread opens a practical debate on whether predefined Skills help or hurt coding agents, and how people actually structure theirs.
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