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No. If you want to write about skills, rather than create a dedicated article, it might be easier and better for the reader to add a section to our agent harness article. It's much shorter than this one, and would be a good place to discuss skills in relation to tools. Essentially, the agent harness is "every piece of code, configuration, and execution logic that isn't the model itself" - so includes both skills and tools.
A little elaboration may be helpful - an agent with skills can still be quite general purpose. At least in the anthropic definition, the concrete representation of a skill can just be a single markdown (.md) file. Quite similar to wiki-markup , .md is based on work by the much missed inclusionist editor Aaron Swartz You can make a custom agent with just a single .md file, but then its' not really a skill, it's more a single instruction file that fine tunes the agent for a single task. When a .md file represents a skill , it will normally be one skill among many that an agent can chose between, for more open ended work. I'll probably get round to adding something about skills to the harness article at some point, if yourself or some other editor doesnt do it first. FeydHuxtable (talk) 20:55, 5 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Could someone clarify the intended scope distinction between this article and Autonomous agent?
Both articles currently describe AI systems that pursue goals, interact with an environment or tools, and act with some degree of autonomy. My impression is that this article is intended to cover the contemporary, often LLM-driven, tool-using form of agentic AI, whereas Autonomous agent is the broader and older concept, including robotics and non-LLM software agents.
If that is right, could the lead and the two articles’ scopes be made clearer and their overlapping material reduced? If it is not right, is a merge or a more explicit parent/child relationship worth discussing? JASpencer (talk) 20:59, 15 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
I think these are basically the same topic, with "AI agent" being indeed more focused on contemporaneous AI agents typically based on LLMs. The article Autonomous agent sits somewhat in-between the articles AI agent and Intelligent agent (another more old-school concept, but focused on the theory of agents). In principle, if not impractical, the article Autonomous agent should be merged into one of the two. Alenoach (talk) 23:07, 15 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
