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Re:Agent skills should be compiled, not just read on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:58AM (#49333121)
So true. A lot of skills out there already mix methodology and orchestration together. SIGIL’s AG-IR compilation helps extract the methodology and keep that separation clean.
Re:Agent skills should be compiled, not just read on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:52AM (#49333021)
Ha ha, true. We already had the solution for compliance years ago with LangGraph, byLLM, etc. I think we went with SKILL.md because of the ease of authoring and use. SKILL.md or AGENT.md is genuinely easier to use, with a low barrier to entry for building custom workflows, though not very compliant. SIGIL seeks to address this dilemma by compiling agent skills.
Sigil compiles a plain-markdown skill into a program the model runs inside. It's not a runtime that reads skills, it's a compiler: SKILL.md in, standalone agent harness out.

It's written in Jac (https://www.jaseci.org), that's where the graph runtime, the typed "by llm" slots and the concurrency come from. Docs: https://sigilagent.com. Happy to go deep on the IR design.

The reason AI fails in Industry is that SKILL.md or other knowledge-injection methods do not guarantee compliance. AI just thinks it "knows better".