Posts tagged Agent Skills.
Agent Plugins is an open standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into one portable folder any client can load. What plugin.json and mcp.json actually define, which clients support it, and whether to package one yet.
You designed the tool well. Nothing verifies it still does what its description promises. An audit of eight tools found four contract bugs, including one that made a finance agent report $2,812 for a $2,752 bill, and the cheap test layer that catches them.
Frontier coding agents are capable but non-deterministic. These are the agent skills for agentic engineering and spec-driven development that keep their work durable across sessions.
Protocols tell agents how to connect. Standards tell them what to know. Here are the open formats giving agents consistent context about projects, capabilities, and design systems in 2026.
The 5 most impactful agent skills for developers building AI agents with coding IDEs. From prompt engineering to agent evaluation, each skill includes what it does, why it matters, and the install command.