agent-skills
Anthropic contributes Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News
Anthropic moved Agent Skills into the Agentic AI Foundation as four new contributions expanded its shared agent infrastructure projects.
A new study finds agent-skill copies rarely receive fixes and stars miss distribution hubs News
Skill Constellations reconstructs how agent skills spread on GitHub and finds that popularity is a weak guide to distribution risk and later fixes.
SkillsBench study finds the same agent skill can help one setup and hurt another News
A study across 87 tasks found aggregate benefits from agent skills, but 32 tasks showed gains in some configurations and losses in others.
Docker Agent adds public-repository skills and evaluation plumbing in a new release News
Docker Agent v1.149.0 adds public-repository skill loading and evaluation updates to its existing declarative agent runtime.
Agent skills work by anchoring procedure, not by adding knowledge News
A study of more than eight thousand agent runs finds that skill files help mainly by stabilizing the order of operations, with explicit knowledge injection accounting for only a small fraction of cases, and that retrieval accuracy collapses as skill libraries grow.
Agent skill libraries now need a librarian, not a folder News
SkillsVote profiles a million-scale corpus of open-source agent skills and admits new ones only through evidence-gated updates after execution, arguing that indiscriminate additions to a skill library pollute every future run's context.
mattpocock/skills Tool
A small, composable set of engineering workflow skills - design review, issue triage, test-driven development, spec generation - deliberately built to plug into your process rather than own it. Installs into any harness that reads the Agent Skills format.
Docker Agent Tool
Open-source configuration-based agent builder and runtime; the October 7 update adds public-repository skill loading and evaluation plumbing.