What is a skill?

A skill is a written procedure for a job you do the same way every time. Your SOP, in a form the agent follows instead of improvising.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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It lives in its own folder with a SKILL.md inside, and only its description sits in context until what you asked matches it. That is why a hundred skills cost almost nothing until one is used.

The instructions are the skill. The folder is where you keep it.

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