Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat...
by _pdp_ on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:47AM
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No. You basically call a function to temporarily or permanently extend the base prompt. But of course you can think of other patterns to do more interesting things depending on your use-case. The prompt selection is a RAG.
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Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in Chat...
by btown on Saturday December 13, 2025 @12:07PM
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Did some research and it's a bit more nuanced than this, though still RAG at its core: each skill has a name and brief description that's included verbatim into every prompt, and a Bash "cat" is triggered as a standard tool call to load the full skill specification from disk.
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-s...
And as implemented in Codex: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/7412/changes#diff-35647...