Agent Skills

Everything Fervor AI has published that touches Agent Skills — 15 pieces, newest first.

• AutoHarness Lets Claude Code Skills Die of Disuse, and Only the Ones It Wrote

  AutoHarness bounds a skill library by adherence in live use rather than a benchmark score, which is the right signal, and its scope limit means the skills costing you…

• K-Dense's Scientific Agent Skills Repo Is MIT. Two of the Skills Inside It Say All Rights Reserved.

  Scientific-agent-skills is MIT at the repository level while each SKILL.md declares its own license, including noncommercial and Anthropic-proprietary terms, so the…

• Sepia Moves the AI-Writing Fight to the Narrative Layer, Then Ships No Evidence It Won

  Sepia's argument that AI writing gives itself away at the narrative layer rather than the word layer is backed by a real paper reporting 93.2% macro-F1 from narrative…

• WikiSkill Found That Agent Skills Transfer Better Than the Models That Wrote Them

  WikiSkill's transfer result implies the durable asset in an agent stack is the skill directory rather than the model it was tuned against, because a 9B model running a…

• Archify Validates the Drawing, Not the Architecture

  Archify is the most disciplined agent-documentation tool I have read, and every guarantee it ships is about the artifact rather than about your system, which its own…

• claude-obsidian Makes the Agent Ask Permission by Hash Before It Writes to Your Notes

  Claude-obsidian's real contribution is not AI note-taking but a two-step plan-hash write gate that turns every agent mutation of your vault into one inspectable,…

• Agent Skills Compose Right Up Until Two of Them Disagree. Then Nothing Decides Who Wins.

  Agent skills are sold as composable but the format defines no precedence and no scope, so when two installed skills govern the same decision the winner gets picked…

• Tencent's AI-Infra-Guard Will Scan Your Agent Stack. Its Own README Says Don't Put It on a Public Network.

  AI-Infra-Guard's skills and MCP scan is the most useful free thing you can point at an agent stack, but the platform running it holds your model API keys, reaches across…

• firecrawl/anydoc: One Document Model Behind Fourteen Office Formats

  Anydoc's real contribution is that every one of its fourteen formats parses into the same document model and renders through the same serializer, which is why a bug…

• book-to-skill Compiles a Technical Book Into an Agent Skill, Then Deletes the Book

  Book-to-skill compiles a book into an instruction file your agent obeys, and the two rules that make it cheap and legally comfortable (never copy the author's words,…

• Alibaba's open-code-review Argues Your Review Skill Is the Problem, Then Ships as a Skill Anyway

  Open-code-review's README is an argument that natural-language skills are the wrong container for review work, so it moves file selection, bundling, rule matching, and…

• Briefing · July 28, 2026 · afternoon

  Agent capability now ships in two competing packages, and on the day MCP finalized a governed spec with deprecation policy and OAuth hardening, the trending board…

• Caveman Got to 85,000 Stars Shrinking What Your Agent Says. Now It Rewrites What Your Agent Reads.

  Caveman's own SKILL.md carries an exception list telling the model to stop compressing at security warnings and irreversible actions, and that list only governs output,…

• The Agent Skills Spec Is Trending on GitHub. Its Entire Contract Is Two Required Fields.

  The Agent Skills spec standardizes packaging rather than behavior, its only hard guarantees are naming and folder conventions while the safety-relevant field is…

• Agent Skills Change After You Install Them, and Every Safety Guide Still Assumes They Don't

  Install-time review ("read the SKILL.md first") is a snapshot control applied to an object that now mutates after install by at least four mechanisms, so the control…