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Skills are not Workflows

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Alex Hytha
Alex Hytha
Computer User
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In Progress

Notes:​

  • AI Agent skills should not be thought of as workflows
  • Instead they should be considered context injectors
  • Procedures are acceptable in a skill
  • Workflows (defined as deterministic event sequences) are agent harnesses
    • Harnesses are code that manages agentic conversations

Specifically, skills should not define strict requirements. They're too flakey to be relied on for critical rules.

References:​

Necessary research:​

  • I need to figure out how agentic hooks work
  • I suspect workflows need more than just subagents, but I don't know yet.