Agent Skills Explained: From Prompts to Structured AI Workflows

Agent Skills are modular, reusable units of procedural knowledge that allow AI agents to perform specific tasks. People hear “AI agent” and assume it’s already a complete system. Then they hear “agent skills” and things get fuzzy—are these tools? prompts? plugins? The short answer: agent skills are structured capabilities that help AI agents do specific tasks. According to a DataCamp article , agent skills are “portable, self-contained units of domain knowledge and procedural logic” that define