Tobias Lindenbauer

Tobias Lindenbauer

Research Engineer working on post-training models for agentic applications in software engineering.

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AI-Agents

Agent Skills That Matter: Automate Verifiable Workflows End-to-End

11 minute read

Published:

If you use any coding agent in your day-to-day work, you’ve probably bought into the hype at this point: you’ve written your first AGENTS.md file, set up some slash commands, or maybe even built your first agent skill after retyping the same prompt for the N-th time.

Here’s the thing: almost all agent skills I’ve seen in the wild fall into a handful of recognizable patterns (e.g., the persona prompt), and most of those patterns don’t fully leverage agentic AI systems. They automate the production of output, often with minimal usage of the systems’ agency. Agent skills that matter automate the production of verified output, while scripting deterministic behaviours and exploiting AI agents’ agency for non-deterministic ones. This gap is exactly where real leverage lives.

Claude-Code

Agent Skills That Matter: Automate Verifiable Workflows End-to-End

11 minute read

Published:

If you use any coding agent in your day-to-day work, you’ve probably bought into the hype at this point: you’ve written your first AGENTS.md file, set up some slash commands, or maybe even built your first agent skill after retyping the same prompt for the N-th time.

Here’s the thing: almost all agent skills I’ve seen in the wild fall into a handful of recognizable patterns (e.g., the persona prompt), and most of those patterns don’t fully leverage agentic AI systems. They automate the production of output, often with minimal usage of the systems’ agency. Agent skills that matter automate the production of verified output, while scripting deterministic behaviours and exploiting AI agents’ agency for non-deterministic ones. This gap is exactly where real leverage lives.

Evaluation

Agent Skills That Matter: Automate Verifiable Workflows End-to-End

11 minute read

Published:

If you use any coding agent in your day-to-day work, you’ve probably bought into the hype at this point: you’ve written your first AGENTS.md file, set up some slash commands, or maybe even built your first agent skill after retyping the same prompt for the N-th time.

Here’s the thing: almost all agent skills I’ve seen in the wild fall into a handful of recognizable patterns (e.g., the persona prompt), and most of those patterns don’t fully leverage agentic AI systems. They automate the production of output, often with minimal usage of the systems’ agency. Agent skills that matter automate the production of verified output, while scripting deterministic behaviours and exploiting AI agents’ agency for non-deterministic ones. This gap is exactly where real leverage lives.

Software-Engineering

Agent Skills That Matter: Automate Verifiable Workflows End-to-End

11 minute read

Published:

If you use any coding agent in your day-to-day work, you’ve probably bought into the hype at this point: you’ve written your first AGENTS.md file, set up some slash commands, or maybe even built your first agent skill after retyping the same prompt for the N-th time.

Here’s the thing: almost all agent skills I’ve seen in the wild fall into a handful of recognizable patterns (e.g., the persona prompt), and most of those patterns don’t fully leverage agentic AI systems. They automate the production of output, often with minimal usage of the systems’ agency. Agent skills that matter automate the production of verified output, while scripting deterministic behaviours and exploiting AI agents’ agency for non-deterministic ones. This gap is exactly where real leverage lives.