Progressive Discovery: A Better Mental Model for Agent Skills

When Anthropic introduced Agent Skills last October, they named the core design principle progressive disclosure . The community adopted it instantly. It's now in the official docs, the engineering blog, every tutorial, every breakdown. It has become the canonical term. I want to suggest a better one: progressive discovery . Not to be contrarian, and not because the term is technically wrong but because discovery produces a clearer, more intuitive picture of what is actually happening. And when