I think skills are probably a net positive for the general population, but for power users, I do recommend moving one meta layer up --

Whenever there's an agent best practice (skill) or 'pre-prompt' that you want to use all the time, turn it into a text expansion snippet so that it works no matter where you are.

As an example, I have a design 'pre-prompt' that dictates a bunch of steering for agents re: how to pick style components, typography, layout, etc. It's a few paragraphs long and I always send it alongside requests for design implementation to get way-better-than-average output.

I could turn it into a skill, but then I'd have to make sure whatever I'm using supported skills -- and install it every time or in a way that was universally seen on my system (no, symlinking doesn't really solve this).

So I use AutoHotkey (you might use Raycast, Espanso, etc) to config that every time I type '/dsn', it auto-expands into my pre-prompt snippet.

Now, no matter whether I'm using an agent on the web/cloud, in my terminal window, or in an IDE, I've memorized my most important 'pre-prompts' and they're a few seconds away.

It's anti-fragile steering by design. Call it universal skill injection.