Skills Folder Is a Junk Drawer
The article critiques the functionality of Skills in LLMs, highlighting their failure to automatically invoke relevant skills. Instead of enhancing user experience, these skills often go unused or are triggered inappropriately. Ultimately, the reliance on manual invocation undermines the intended efficiency of the system.
- ▪Skills are intended to automatically invoke based on context.
- ▪In practice, skills are often ignored when relevant and triggered incorrectly at other times.
- ▪The only reliable way to use a skill is through manual invocation, negating the promise of automation.
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Skills are supposed to be smart about it. The pitch is that the LLM recognizes when to invoke a skill based on its description. You're working on frontend code, it notices it has a frontend-design skill, and reaches for it automatically. This doesn't work. Skills get ignored when they're relevant and occasionally triggered when they're not. The only reliable way to use a skill is to invoke it manually, which makes the "auto-invocation" promise meaningless. You don't have an intelligent tool. You have a slash command with extra steps.
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