Your Agent Is Writing Its Own Skills. Who Is Reading Them?
Your agent has been rewriting its own instruction manual, and chances are you have not read the revisions. If it writes its own skills, you probably cannot say what it has learned over the past month, which means the instructions steering its behavior are changing in a folder nobody is watching.
That matters because a skill is a standing instruction for the agent. When there is a change in a skill, every future run inherits the shift. The first symptom of this drift is usually an odd result somewhere downstream with no obvious cause. A codebass has pull requests and reviewers for exactly this reason. Agent skills carry just as much influence over what your systems do, yet they rarely get the same level of attention as an open pull request.
The fact that skills are plain files that are easy to create further aggravates the situation, especially for long-running...
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