by Amit Shekhar · 30 July 2026
What are Agent Skills?
Agent Skills. We will also see why we need them, what is inside a Skill, how the description makes an agent pick up the right Skill by itself, how progressive disclosure keeps the context window free, how Agent Skills differ from MCP, and how we can create our own Skill.
Read on Outcome School ↗then come back to lock it in
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What this article covers
- The problem before Agent Skills
- What are Agent Skills?
- What is inside a Skill?
- The description is the trigger
- Progressive disclosure, the main idea
- A Skill can carry real code
- Where Skills live
- How do we create our own Skill?
- Agent Skills vs MCP
- A real example
- Importance of Agent Skills
- Things we must be careful about
- Summary
The article lives on outcomeschool.com. Read it there, then come back: the tutor in the margin has read it and will answer questions, and the questions below check what stayed.