Explain Skills and Progressive Disclosure in an Agent
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Explain reusable agent skills, prompt context, progressive disclosure, selection metadata, referenced resources, and the boundaries of permissions and validation.
Explain what a skill means in an agent architecture, how it differs from an ordinary prompt, and how progressive disclosure can organize the information supplied to the agent.
Constraints & Assumptions
Use a generic architecture: a skill is a reusable task package containing instructions and optional references or tools. Do not assume a specific product's file format or loading implementation.
Clarifying Questions
How are skills discovered and selected? Which information is loaded initially? Who owns permissions and validation? What happens when a referenced document is untrusted or outdated?
Follow-up questions
- How can too many skill descriptions harm selection? When should detailed references be loaded? Why does packaging a procedure not make every instruction in a retrieved document authoritative?
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