I'm actually on the fence with skills. Vercel shared a study where they claimed skills performed actually worse [0] - than just injecting into the context directly via agents.md. Similarly, there was a paper recently that suggested the same [1]
Of course, the classic response to these - even WITH the evidence is often "yOu'Re dOiNg iT wRonG". Does anyone actually have proof - where using skill.md is arguably better than not?
Edit: Fixed company name, added link to Vercel's claim
Of course, the classic response to these - even WITH the evidence is often "yOu'Re dOiNg iT wRonG". Does anyone actually have proof - where using skill.md is arguably better than not?
Edit: Fixed company name, added link to Vercel's claim
[0] https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-...
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988