You're probably using Agent Skills wrong

theowaway213456

TL;DR don't have your agent write skills using only its latent knowledge, otherwise you may as well not use a skill in the first place and let it summon that latent knowledge on the fly. Not sure if this take is correct though. I suspect self-generated skills help the agent avoid having to "decompress" its latent knowledge, which might save tokens? idk, I am not an expert

whattheheckheck

What if I want a way to open up a latent space prompt without having to type it all out everytime?

cush

Having agents create their own skills works well if you also give it a layer of verifiability. Eg. Ask the agent to write a skill then get it to prompt a subagent to use the skill, then iterate until it verifies the task was completed correctly