You're probably using Agent Skills wrong

Re:You're probably using Agent Skills wrong by theowaway213456 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @10:11PM (#48624798)

TL;DR don't have your agent write skills using only its latent knowledge, otherwise you may as well not use a skill in the first place and let it summon that latent knowledge on the fly.

Not sure if this take is correct though. I suspect self-generated skills help the agent avoid having to "decompress" its latent knowledge, which might save tokens? idk, I am not an expert

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Re:You're probably using Agent Skills wrong by bigcat12345678 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @10:20PM (#48624858)

I now have rules to not let agent write any docs or processes. Pretty much anything LLM auto-generated are of zero reuse value.

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Re:You're probably using Agent Skills wrong by imhoguy on Monday June 22, 2026 @06:55AM (#48628493)

Autogenerated content is good scaffolding, but then I have a rule where if I mark heading with "(by-human)" the section shouldn't be changed by LLM without permission.

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Re:You're probably using Agent Skills wrong by solarkraft on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:09AM (#48626356)

It seems so obvious: How would it know better than it already does?

Yet I’ve seen people succeed with „write me a prompt“ prompts. The model makes something up, often it makes sense.

They are like plans in that way: It’s not exactly novel knowledge, but it at least encodes it somewhere to make the process verifiable beforehand and a bit more repeatable.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it improves performance a little, just like thinking blocks do (every model reasons now).

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Re:You're probably using Agent Skills wrong by cassianoleal on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:36AM (#48627430)

Skills can transfer one session's latent knowledge to all other sessions.

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