What Does This Mean?

Agent Skill

[ SLANG ][ AGENT CULTURE ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]

FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: Agent CultureCLUSTER: Tooling

A packaged, reusable capability that can be loaded into an AI agent to extend what it knows how to do, treated as a modular unit distinct from the agent's base model or core prompt.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Loaded a new agent skill for spreadsheet work, saved an hour of manual prompting."

LORE & ORIGIN

Named as agent platforms formalized the idea of installable, shareable capability modules, paralleling how plugins or extensions work in traditional software.

FIRST SEEN

2025

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2026 (AI Coding)

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

Related To:Agent Harness Agentic Loop

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

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AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

→ STEADY

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

[ SLANG ][ AGENT CULTURE ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]

RELATED TERMS

MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

2025

NOW

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