Agentic AI Skills Expose Context Management Challenges

An industry commentator argues that "skills"—text files agents optionally attach to their context windows—are widely used to supply recent or domain-specific information but produce inconsistent, non-deterministic results. The piece notes skills can backfill training gaps, reduce bias, and increase costs due to token usage, while highlighting opacity around when and how skills apply. It calls for better measurement, tooling, and reproducibility.