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Agent Skills Reshape AI Specialization Economics
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The article defines the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent Skills as runtime 'soft forks' that change agent behavior via context injection without altering model weights or harnesses. It describes a simple, versioned skill package format (SKILL.md) and sandboxed execution, plus SkillsBench, an 85-task benchmark finding average gains of 13.2 percentage points with notable domain variance. The piece recommends compact skills and targeted evaluation to avoid regressions.
