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A skill is a self-contained Markdown directive with a little YAML frontmatter on top, sitting in its own directory. That description makes it sound like documentation, which is exactly the trap. The interesting part is not what a skill contains. It's when the agent pays for it.

Here is the sentence we keep in our own skill registry, and it is the whole design: a skill is a directive the agent reads on demand via a read_skill tool, rather than something injected into every prompt — so the agent pays the token cost only when the skill is actually relevant to the turn.