skills
An agent that writes whole papers got 99 percent of its citations right News
A system that generates complete research papers as thirteen composable skills inside a coding assistant audited at 99.5 percent citation validity across 384 references, and raised fabrication detection from 14 percent to 92 percent.
Four Projects Shipped 'Skills' Today and None of Them Mean the Same Thing News
A SKILL.md file plus scripts has become the common interface for handing an AI agent reusable expertise, but today's four releases occupy four different layers - writing skills, training agents to use them, deploying them, and governing their supply chain.
Two Essays About AI and Your Brain, and One Actual Study News
A randomized experiment found that AI assistance impaired conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging while delivering no significant average speed gain, which supports the concern behind this week's viral developer essays but not their proposed fix.
Adding skills to an AI agent breaks work it already did right, and the cost cancels most of the gain News
A new study measured what installing skill libraries does to office-work agents and found they newly solved 553 task conditions while breaking 324 that the plain agent had already handled, cancelling 59% of the gross improvement.
Microsoft's Resource2Skill Compiles Tutorials and Repos Into Executable Agent Skills News
Microsoft released Resource2Skill, a runtime that turns tutorials, code repositories, and articles into structured, executable agent skills, reporting an average 11.9-point performance lift.
reverse-skill Tool
A deployed cybersecurity skill pack for coding agents: instructions, a routing table that picks the method and tools for a given task type, a local tool inventory, scripts and sub-skills. It also keeps a field journal, writing task outcomes and lessons back to disk so later runs consult prior work. Persistent procedural memory by file mutation, with no verifier checking that each write improves future performance.
localskills.sh Tool
A versioned registry and distribution layer for coding-agent skills. A skill is a folder rooted in SKILL.md with optional scripts, references and assets; versions are immutable and hash-tracked, and installs land in each agent's native location. Its MCP server also lets an agent search and load a skill mid-task, though that copy lives only in the current context window unless installed locally.
agent-skills Tool
Addy Osmani's collection of production-grade, reusable skills for AI coding agents, trending near the top of GitHub this week.
Skill Self-Play Tool
Apache-2.0 release of a system that grows and prunes a library of skill packages, each with routing metadata, examples and an executable validator, then trains a solver on the tasks they generate. Includes benchmark material and training launchers; expects eight visible GPUs.
Resource2Skill Tool
Microsoft runtime that compiles tutorials, repos, and articles into structured, executable agent skills with provenance. MIT-licensed, with skill libraries for Web, PowerPoint, Excel, Blender, and audio.
NVIDIA SkillSpector Tool
A scanner that inspects agent skills for security problems before you run them -- a static safety check for the fast-growing agent-skill supply chain.
Anthropic Skills Tool
The reference repository for Claude's skill format: a folder with a SKILL.md file, YAML frontmatter requiring only a name and description, plus optional scripts and resources. Works across Claude Code, Claude.ai, and the API, with plugin-marketplace install instructions.