Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Microsoft's SkillOpt brings deep-learning discipline to AI agent skills, replacing manual prompt tweaking with mathematically validated text optimization.
VentureBeat

Anthropic launches enterprise ‘Agent Skills’ and opens the standard, challenging OpenAI in workplace AI

Anthropic said on Wednesday it would release its Agent Skills technology as an open standard, a strategic bet that sharing its approach to making AI assistants more capable will cement the company's ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with New Experimental GitHub Copilot 'Agent Skills' in VS Code

Visual Studio Code 1.108 adds experimental Agent Skills, allowing GitHub Copilot to load custom instructions, scripts, and resources for specialized tasks. Agent Skills are defined in a simple folder ...
techtimes

Claude Code Skills: Inside Anthropic’s Playbook for the Nine Types That Actually Work

Anthropic has published an unusually concrete account of how its own engineers use Skills in Claude Code, the company's command-line coding agent, in a June 3 post on the Claude blog written by ...