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From Skills as the Interface to Agentic Products · ≈12:44
“So when you have like a few skills, shoving them in the system prompt really works.”
“The real trouble really starts when you have hundreds of skills.”
What’s in it
- Explains when stuffing skills into the system prompt stops working
- Shows how to shortlist skills once you pass 10 of them
- Covers hierarchy and governance needed at hundreds of skills
Clip transcript
So when you have like a few skills, shoving them in the system prompt really works. But as soon as you start growing your skill stack, this falls apart. When you have like more than 10 skill, maybe that's like a good point to think start thinking about, you know, how can you shortlist the skills that you're going to add to the system prompt. And this could mean just like having embeddings and have similarity search and short lists or a smaller model that can shortlist the skills and add to the system prompt. The real trouble really starts when you have hundreds of skills. At that point, you really need hierarchy of skills and metadata filters and the governance in the place to keep your uh library searchable and coherent.
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