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The skill for feature thing is just horrible, it's wasteful to everyone but the maintainer. It feels like a YOLO people are getting away with because people drank some kool-aid.


Think of skills more like Excel macros (or any other software with robust macro support). It doesn't make sense for Microsoft to provide the specific workflow you need, but your own sheet needs it.


Except "skills" being worked upon by a deterministic model will result in inconsistent results than a heuristic VB macro written for Excel




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