Who Maintains Agent Skills? A Longitudinal Study of Human-Governed, AI-Assisted Skill Maintenance
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Chen Shen, Estevam Hruschka
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Chen Shen, Estevam Hruschka
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agent skill — A reusable instruction file that teaches an agent how to do one job well — the procedure, the tools, and what counts as done.
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Mining 873 commits across public AI-agent skillA reusable instruction file that teaches an agent how to do one job well — the procedure, the tools, and what counts as done.Full definition → repositories shows humans still author or merge every substantive skill-file edit, pushing back on the idea that skill curation is close to fully automatable.
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