This post was originally published on The Nuanced Perspective and is being reposted here with the authors’ permission. Agent skills are everywhere right now. Atlassian built them into Rovo so agents can automatically triage Jira tickets, draft Confluence pages, and route service requests without anyone typing a prompt. Canva and Figma use them so Claude can interact with design files directly. Stripe published skills for payment workflow automation. When Anthropic launched the Agent Skills open standard in December 2025 , Microsoft adopted it in VS Code and GitHub within weeks. The idea is elegantly simple. Instead of building a new specialized agent for every use case, you write a skill once, and any agent that understands the standard can use it. A code reviewer, a PR generator, a deployment checklist, a sprint planner. Each lives in a folder, triggers when relevant, and brings your team’s specific way of doing things into the agent’s context.…