Yes
With a fitting skill the agent does not need to read the tooling docs, look at existing repos and learn the coding style, but it can get to work immediately
floriangoebel on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Skipping the learning phase for niche codebases and custom tooling.
Got in the way: Mistakes in skills repo can spread to all new code.
… What skills do for me, is essentially skip the "learning" phase of an agent working in the codebase. With a fitting skill the agent does not need to read the tooling docs, look at existing repos and learn the coding style, but it can get to work immediately. This is probably less relevant for code that exists a ton in the LLM training data already as an llm is probably competent to some degree in that anyway. …