// Hacker Noon · 2 March 2026

Read This Before You Write Another Agent Skill

A paper on self-generated Agent Skills was published on Hacker News. The concept is great, but the paper invalidates the whole thing. Skills are just markdown files that have some metadata at the top to help Agents/Tools know when to use them.

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