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Greg Isenberg

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Right.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

It's in every single turn.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

But this is where the beauty of skills come.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

I'll show my screen here.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Your skill, again, this is not like word for word how it looks, but a skill basically looks like this.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

There is a name.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

There is a description.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

And then underneath is a bunch of information.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

I'm going to put a bunch of info.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

When you create a skill.md file, what gets added into the context is actually just the name and the description.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Right.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

The bunch of info doesn't get added.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So imagine you have two sentences versus an agent on MD that has like a thousand lines that get added into the context.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

We're talking thousands of tokens compared to a couple hundred.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

And the agent only gets the bunch of info when it realizes it needs this skill.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So if I have, let's say, a certain way of generating a report, a certain way of structuring my code.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

Why would I put that in the agent.md file when I can have the agent call on it progressively when it needs it, right?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So this is why skills are honestly like I'm a shill, I'm a maxi, but people do it wrong.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

And I'm going to share the right way on how do we create skills.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

So, so far we have the system prompt, the agent.md, the skills, and then we have the tools, right?