Agent Skills and Context Engineering¶

Introduce Anthropic's Agent Skills mechanism to enhance Agent capabilities and efficiency through progressive information disclosure.

What are Agent Skills¶

Agent Skills are Anthropic's context engineering approach introduced in 2025, enabling Agents to load specialized instructions, scripts, and resources on demand.

Core Concept¶

Progressive Disclosure

Like a well-organized manual that starts with a table of contents, then specific chapters, and finally detailed appendices—Skills let Claude load information only when needed, rather than loading everything at once.

How It Works¶

Feature	Description
Folder Organization	Skills are folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources
On-Demand Loading	Load relevant Skills only when needed, reducing context overhead
Composability	Multiple Skills can be combined to meet complex requirements
Specialized Capabilities	Provide deep specialization for specific tasks

Planned Directions¶

The platform will explore integrating the Agent Skills mechanism:

Potential Capabilities¶

Skills Library: Pre-built professional skill packages (e.g., Excel processing, data analysis, document generation)
Custom Skills: Users can create and manage their own skill packages
Skills Sharing: Share and reuse Skills within teams
Smart Loading: Automatically select and combine Skills based on tasks

Expected Value¶

Value	Description
Efficiency Gains	On-demand loading reduces context length, lowering costs and latency
Capability Extension	Quickly add domain-specific capabilities to Agents
Standardization	Encapsulate best practices into reusable Skills

Learn More¶

Agent Skills and context engineering are important directions for AI Agent development:

Agent Skills will bring more powerful and efficient specialized Agent capabilities to the platform.