Skillet Blog
The 2,500-skill company
Uber's engineers built 2,500+ agent skills. The number everyone quoted is the win. The detail everyone skimmed is how Uber spreads that automation: by hand.
Finding skills worth running
There are hundreds of thousands of agent skills and almost no way to tell which are good. Here's how to find the few that are, without testing 30 of them yourself.
A cheap model with a skill beat a frontier model without one
Skills sound like glorified prompts. Then someone ran 880 evals and the cheapest model, with one skill, beat a frontier model's baseline.
Trust the person, not the catalog
The cure for slop is a stronger perspective, not a bigger model, and a perspective belongs to a person. Which is why your agent should not be grabbing skills off a leaderboard.
It wasn't the tool. It was one person who refused to go back.
Matt Pocock asked companies that adopted his skills what made them say yes. 78 replies and quote-tweets came back telling the same story, and it isn't about features.