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Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat... by jstummbillig on Saturday December 13, 2025 @03:23AM (#46253036)
Why do you need code execution envs? Could the skill not just be a function over a business process, do a then b then c?
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Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat... by steilpass on Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:40AM (#46253614)
Turns out that basic shell commands are a really powerful for context management. And you get tools which run in shells for free.

But yes. Other agent platforms will adopt this pattern.

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Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat... by true2octave on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:30AM (#46254091)
I prefer to provide CLIs to my agent

I find it powerful how it can leverage and self-discover the best way to use a CLI and its parameters to achieve its goals

It feels more powerful than providing pre-defined set functions as MCP that will have less flexibility as a CLI

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