Agent Skills: The New Way AI Becomes Specialized

<p>Anthropic’s <strong>Agent Skills</strong> introduce a smarter way for AI agents to load knowledge only when it’s needed. Using progressive disclosure, agents stay token-efficient while gaining powerful, domain-specific capabilities on demand.</p><p>In this episode, we explain how Agent Skills work, why they’re simpler than MCP, and how they turn general AI models into focused specialists—while raising important security questions around executable skills.</p><p>If you’re building or thinking about AI agents, this is a format you’ll want to understand. Powered by ideas from <strong>Anthropic</strong>.</p>