DEFINITION
Skills-Based Agent Design
Skills-Based Agent Design Pattern
Definition
An agent instruction approach where capabilities are explicitly defined as discrete, named skills with clear inputs/outputs and usage guidelines, rather than relying on agents to infer capabilities from documentation.
Examples in the Wild
- Example 1:Agents given explicit skill definitions like 'search_database', 'calculate_metric'
- Example 2:Skill-based prompting vs documentation-based prompting comparison