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Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat... by lxgr on Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:51AM (#46253660)
Many useful inventions seem blindingly obvious in hindsight.

Yes, in the end skills are just another way to manage prompts and avoid cluttering the context of a model, but they happen to be one that works really well.

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Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat... by _pdp_ on Saturday December 13, 2025 @06:32AM (#46253832)
It is not an invention if it is common sense and there is plenty of previous art. How would you otherwise dynamically extend the prompt? You will have some kind of function that based on the selected preferences add more prompt to the base prompt. That is basically what this is except that Anthropic added it as a built in tool.
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Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat... by skydhash on Saturday December 13, 2025 @06:40AM (#46253867)
Open the python REPL

Type `import math`

You now have more skills (symbols)

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Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat... by _pdp_ on Saturday December 13, 2025 @06:46AM (#46253900)
???
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Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat... by wordpad on Saturday December 13, 2025 @12:50PM (#46256389)
He is making a point something extremely powerful can be simple and obvious. Importing libraries is an obvious way to manage code complexity and dependencies.

Skills do that for prompts.

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Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat... by butlike on Monday December 15, 2025 @03:54PM (#46280492)
But I need skills ~4.3 cause 19,383 deps depend on it. Should I bump to ^4.0 in the llm-composer.json?
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