Confusion Over Why AI Agent Frameworks Need a Separate Skills Concept
A Hacker News poster questions why agent frameworks like Claude Code or Codex introduce a distinct skills concept rather than simply pointing an agent to well-organized markdown documentation files, since the two seem functionally equivalent. Replies suggest skills are indeed just structured markdown docs, with the added terminology serving mostly as convenience or marketing framing rather than a deep architectural difference.
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agencykit - agency workflows packaged as free Claude skills (announcement)
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