# Yuchen Jin says Agent Skills is a transitional technology

> Original title: Agent Skills is definitely a transitional technology.

- Source: Yuchen Jin
- Published: 2026-11-09T18:01:36.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/lnp2mr7lfdx27utx8xv0b8602
- Original: https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2119852921244524895

## Summary

Yuchen Jin argues that Agent Skills is a transitional technology, since a general agent should learn tasks by watching a user once rather than relying on a 1,000-line skill markdown file. He says a truly smart agent should not need a manual for every task.

## Post

Agent Skills is definitely a transitional technology.

Why write a 1,000-line skill md when an agent can just watch you do something once, and figure out how to do it better?

A truly general and smart agent shouldn’t need a manual for every task.