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Progressive disclosure via skill registry

From Skills as the Interface to Agentic Products · ≈7:15

“So you have your registry then you form a skill concat concatenating the name description path and put it in your system prompt.”

“Agent is going to read the skills and only pick the skills that it is going to read and follow the instructions from there.”

What’s in it

Explains how AI agents discover and select 'skills' at runtime
Breaks down the registry pattern behind Anthropic-style skill systems
Unpacks 'progressive disclosure' as the trick behind lean system prompts

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Clip transcript

skill that will take that markdown and turn into PDF. Now how does really the agent discover the skill? So you have your registry then you form a skill concat concatenating the name description path and put it in your system prompt. So if you notice like we are only using the name and description path in in this system prompt and not the skill body and that's what what they call about is progressive disclosure. Agent is going to read the skills and only pick the skills that it is going to read and follow the instructions from there.

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