Agent Skills

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1. 8h
   Kingbase Releases KES AI Database

   Kingbase released KES AI database in Beijing on October 30, adding an in-database semantic layer, vector and graph processing, model invocation, access controls, and auditability for enterprise AI workloads. The vendor also announced migration support, ONNX Runtime integration, data-development tools, KES MCP and Agent Skills connectors, NL2SQL and operations agents, and a jointly established key laboratory with Renmin University of China.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 8
2. 12h
   Anthropic publishes Agent Skills repository and specification

   Anthropic’s public repository contains its implementation of Agent Skills for Claude, the specification, a skill template, and examples for creative, technical, enterprise, and document workflows. Many skills use the Apache 2.0 license, while the DOCX, PDF, PPTX, and XLSX document skills are source-available rather than open source. Skills can be installed through Claude Code or uploaded to Claude.ai and the Claude API. Anthropic says Claude dynamically loads instructions, scripts, and resources to improve performance on specialized tasks, but the repository warns that Claude’s implementation and behavior may differ from the examples and advises testing skills before critical use.

   GitHub Trending · Python · 🔥 11
3. 7d
   Agent Skills open specification is published

   The Agent Skills specification repository now publishes documentation and format details for extending AI agents with specialized knowledge and workflows. A skill is a folder containing a required SKILL.md file with metadata and task instructions, plus optional scripts, references, templates and other resources; agents load full instructions progressively when relevant. The repository says Anthropic originally developed the format before releasing it as an open standard.

   GitHub Trending · Python · 🔥 0
4. Oct 24
   book-to-skill turns technical documents into reusable agent skills

   The open-source book-to-skill project converts technical books, document folders, or source collections into structured Agent Skills for coding-agent hosts including GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes Agent, OpenCode, and OpenClaw. According to its README, the tool extracts source material locally and organizes it into frameworks, decision rules, anti-patterns, a glossary, and per-chapter files that agents can load on demand. Its maintainers report using 24 to 51 times fewer tokens than placing an entire book in context for one question, although that measurement has not been independently verified.

   GitHub Trending · Python · 🔥 0
5. Oct 24
   Anthropic guide favors a single main agent loop over subagent sprawl

   Anthropic published an 18-minute guide recommending a default design of one model, one context window and one open-ended tool loop. It advises putting domain procedures in skills and hard limits or lookups in tools, while retaining subagents when context degradation, disposable-context parallelism or excessive tools and conflicting instructions are measured problems. The guide also cites one customer whose single loop ran roughly twice as fast as its multi-agent harness and says several deployments saw better quality, lower cost and lower latency.

   r/ClaudeAI · 🔥 0
6. Oct 22
   Anthropic Donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

   Anthropic donated the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, transferring its specification, name, logo, GitHub organization, and domain to community governance. The standard packages reusable work instructions, scripts, and reference materials so compatible AI agents can load them for specific tasks. Anthropic says more than 70 agent platforms have integrated it, with about one million public Skills and 280 million cumulative installations, though these figures were not independently audited.

   Simon Willison's Weblog · 🔥 0
7. Oct 10
   K-Dense renames science skill library, launches local AI co-scientist app

   K-Dense has renamed its Claude Scientific Skills project to Scientific Agent Skills, saying the skills themselves are unchanged but now work with any AI agent that supports the open Agent Skills standard rather than only Claude. The repository claims 177 scientific and research skills plus more than 100 scientific databases spanning biology, chemistry, medicine and drug discovery, and lists compatibility with hosts including Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Pi and Google Antigravity. K-Dense also announced K-Dense BYOK, a free open-source desktop "AI co-scientist" in which users supply their own API keys, choose from 40-plus models and keep data on their own machine. Claims such as the skill and database counts and use by "250,000+ scientists" come from the project's own README and were not independently verified in the supplied material.

   GitHub Trending · Python · 🔥 0

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