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Having worked with cloud for almost 2 decades. The term self-hosted is indeed what you describe. The opposite is "managed services", e.g. services that are packaged by the vendor without the need to manage auxiliary needs like CPU, memory, disk, log rotation, etc.

Yeah, I get that. I have created dozens of skills, but they are usually to accomplish very specific tasks. Some of them have accompanying scripts, etc.

My point is that this sounds more like a general AGENTS.md use case, similar to defining tone of voice, output format, etc.

It just seems skills is the only way to distribute certain "behavior" as of today. But not everything is a skill IMHO, and not this is not one of them.

On the other hand, maybe we're seeing an evolution of what skills are becoming.

Can someone explain why this is a agent skill and not just agent config (AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md)?

Timeline: - Aug. 7 GitHub introduces configurable GH Copilot effort levels - Aug. x GitHub executives identify a great opportunity related to the early August change - Aug 28. Default GH Copilot review is now "Balanced" effort level

This brings back memories!

IKEA is the new "fast fashion", but for furniture.

You buy something one day, and it starts to deteriorate and become janky after a year, and you'll have a buy a new one. All products have gone through spreadsheet cost optimizations.

It wasn't always like that. If you're lucky to get your hands on an old IKEA bookshelf (Billy), it's sturdy and will last forever.

That's a good way to kill off motivated employees.

"We don't know why we're doing it - it's just mandatory".