Posts tagged "skills"
What is a playbook for in agentic work?
A playbook makes a recurring agent task run the same way every time: fixed steps, typed handovers, checks and stop rules. How it relates to AGENTS.md, skills and runbooks.
Building an internal skills catalog: review, ownership and discovery
Build a skills catalog for your organisation: submit, review, publish with owner and version, then deprecate. Borrows ideas from public registries.
Ops series: turning runbooks into skills without losing control
Runbook automation AI done safely: turn a runbook into a skill plus narrowly scoped tools with approvals. A step-by-step conversion guide for ops teams.
AGENTS.md: one predictable place for project context
AGENTS.md is a Markdown file at the repository root with build steps, conventions and limits for coding agents. What belongs in it and what in skills.
Versioning agent skills like any other dependency
Skill versioning treats agent skills as dependencies: semantic versions, changelog, pinning and evals that guard upgrades. What counts as a breaking change.
Third-party skills are supply chain: an agent skill security checklist
Agent skill security starts with treating third-party skills as dependencies. A checklist for provenance, pinning, full review and least privilege.
Anatomy of an agent skill: SKILL.md, progressive disclosure and scope
SKILL.md is the entry point of an agent skill: its short description decides when the rest loads. Progressive disclosure, a minimal skill and scoping rules.
Tool, skill or prompt? Three ways to give an agent what it needs
Agent skills vs tools vs prompts: a tool acts, a skill packages know-how loaded on demand, a prompt is standing text. Includes a decision table.