Agents to Skills: Building Expertise with Procedural Knowledge

Join us as Anthropic experts reveal why they stopped building agents and started building specialized "skills" instead, arguing that while general agents are brilliant, they often lack the domain expertise needed for consistent, real-world work. Skills are simply organized folders packaging procedural knowledge and scripts as tools to provide that missing expertise and important context. This scalable design is fostering a quickly growing ecosystem, enabling general agents like Claude to acquire new capabilities and organizational best practices instantly.