Can Agent Skills Make Output Worse? | Dachary Carey

In the last ~6 months, Agent Skills have gone from a new feature introduced by Claude Code to a widely adopted paradigm across the industry. Companies that want to signal they understand customer AI adoption and consider it as part of the developer experience have been publishing official skills. I have been part of such an effort at my own company, where I have learned a ton from our experience and from analyzing other releases across the industry. I went in expecting a documentation-pipeline problem. I came out understanding that official skills are a full product surface; one that can actively make your customers' agent output worse if you ship them naively.