Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
By skeptic_ai · 2026-08-02 · 4 points · 3 comments
I’ve asked AI a few times and I still don’t get it. Why do frameworks like Claude Code or Codex have the concept of “skills” instead of just using well-organized Markdown docs? Couldn’t I just have an AGENTS.md that points to folders of .md files and tells the agent when to read…
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