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Why Agent Skills Could Be the Most Practical Leap in Everyday AI

- **Agent Skills** are *modular capability packs* for Claude: metadata + instructions + resources/scripts that Claude can load **only when relevant**. - The killer feature is **progressive disclosure**: Claude initially reads just `name` + `description`, then loads full instructions only after the u...

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