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How to Whittle a Skill

Agent skills improve through repeatable judgment rules and failure-case evaluation, not through prompt-polishing intuition.

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How to Whittle a Skill
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Overview

Improve agent skills through progressive disclosure, classification ladders, and evaluation.

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