Viberpsychosis Glossary
// The Actual Jargon

Agent Skills

// What it actually means

Packaged instructions, scripts and reference files, usually a folder containing a SKILL.md file, that an AI agent loads on demand so it can do a specific task the same way every time. The format started with Claude and has since been adopted by other coding agents.

// The diagnosis

You taught the agent to do something once so you would never have to explain it again. You now have forty-one skills and cannot remember what any of them do. Neither can the agent.

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