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State of agent skills

The registry data tells you what builders are actually doing with agents right now. They're not using generic models; they're encoding organizational judgment as skills. This matters because it proves the bottleneck isn't capability, it's customization. If you're building agents, skills are your distribution and retention lever. If you're building tools or APIs, being installable as a skill is now table stakes.