Great primer and the perfect deep-dive supplement to my last post, which was aimed at a more layman audience. Funny how we continue to tackle similar topics from different perspectives almost simulatenously these days.
Really solid breakdown of how these primitives stack together. The insight about Skills providing expertise rather than just capability is exactly waht I've been thinking about when building agents. I've spent way too many hours on orchestration layers that Skills could simplify. One thing tho, I wonder if we'll see Skills become a distribution battleground similar to app stores once the ecosystem matures.
Potentially, but I think it’s a double edged sword. There’s clearly a huge branding win in being able to be the default distribution layer for something like skills or MCPs but there’s also a major risk and a major challenge in figuring out how to safely host potentially malicious packages and how to thoughtfully curate and promote a subset of those. Again, that’s why I think we’ll probably see something similar to the python or JavaScript ecosystems package managers where they don’t do any promotion and it’s solely upon each maintainer to get distribution for their packages.
Great primer and the perfect deep-dive supplement to my last post, which was aimed at a more layman audience. Funny how we continue to tackle similar topics from different perspectives almost simulatenously these days.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Really solid breakdown of how these primitives stack together. The insight about Skills providing expertise rather than just capability is exactly waht I've been thinking about when building agents. I've spent way too many hours on orchestration layers that Skills could simplify. One thing tho, I wonder if we'll see Skills become a distribution battleground similar to app stores once the ecosystem matures.
Potentially, but I think it’s a double edged sword. There’s clearly a huge branding win in being able to be the default distribution layer for something like skills or MCPs but there’s also a major risk and a major challenge in figuring out how to safely host potentially malicious packages and how to thoughtfully curate and promote a subset of those. Again, that’s why I think we’ll probably see something similar to the python or JavaScript ecosystems package managers where they don’t do any promotion and it’s solely upon each maintainer to get distribution for their packages.