Skills don’t solve the problem if you think an llm should know everything. But if you see LLMs mostly as a text plan-do-check-act machine that can process input text, generate output text, and can create plans how to create more knowledge and validate the output, without knowing everything upfront, skills are perfectly fine solution.

The value of standardizing skills is that the skills you define work with any agentic tool. Doesn't matter how simple they are, if they dont work easily, they have no use.

You need a practical and efficient way to give the llm your context. Just like every organization has its own standards, best practices, architectures that should be documented, as new developers do not know this upfront, LLMs also need your context.

An llm is not an all knowing brain, but it’s a plan-do-check-act text processing machine.