[emadabdulrahim]

So skills are basically preset system prompts, assuming different roles etc? Or is there more to it.

I'm a little confused.

[JyB]

I'm super confused as well. This seems like exactly that, just some default prompt injections to chose from. I guess I kinda understand them in the context of their claude chat UI product.

By I don't understand why it's a thing in Claude Code tho when we already have Claude.md? Could also just point to any .md file in the prompt as preamble but not even needed. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-pract...

That concept is also already perfectly specd in the MCP standard right? (Although not super used I think?) https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/ser...

[chickensong]

Claude.md gets read every time and eats context, while it sounds like the skills are read as-needed, saving context.

[pollinations]

Plus executable.xode snippets. I think their actual source code doesn't use context. But feels like function calling packaged.

[imiric]

Right, that's my interpretation as well.

"AI" companies have reached the end of the road when it comes to throwing more data and compute at the problem. The only way now for charts to go up and to the right is to deliver value-added services.

And, to be fair, there's a potentially long and profitable road by doing good engineering work that was needed anyways.

But it should be obvious to anyone within this bubble that this is not the road to "superintelligence" or "AGI". I hope that the hype and false advertising stops soon, so that we can focus on practical applications of this technology, which are numerous.