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Using AI Agent Skills in a Business
A practical field guide to turning one-off agent behaviour into reusable, testable, permissioned capabilities that a business can actually operate.
I explain how I would move from a general-purpose agent with a large prompt to a library of explicit skills: deciding what deserves to become a skill, defining the contract around it, attaching tools and context safely, routing work to the right capability, composing skills without creating chaos, evaluating quality, controlling cost, versioning changes, and building the governance needed for teams to trust agent-driven work.
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Who it's for
Built for people making the same decisions I made.
This guide follows the same principles I use when thinking about agentic products: tools should be policy-bound, work should be observable, durable state should be explicit, customer-facing actions may need human approval, and every capability should have a clear operating boundary rather than relying on a model to improvise the entire system from one prompt.
Engineering teams designing agent architectures
Operations teams automating repeatable business workflows
Agencies building reusable AI delivery systems
Consultants turning expertise into repeatable agent capabilities
Product leaders deciding where agents should and should not act autonomously
Structure
5 parts, 15 chapters.
Every chapter follows the same teaching device: the situation, the naive solution, the hidden constraint, the decision, the implementation, the tradeoff, the evidence, the reusable lesson, and the consultant's questions.
Part 1: Understanding What a Skill Actually Is
Part 2: Designing Skills That Work Reliably
Part 3: Routing and Composing Skills
Part 4: Operating a Skill Library in Production
Part 5: Making Skills Work for the Business
Where I can help
AI Agent Skills Architecture Review
I help teams identify which workflows should become reusable agent skills, define the skill and tool boundaries, design routing and approval logic, build an evaluation strategy, and create a skill library that can grow without becoming ungovernable.
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