They’re transferable to the next agent context session because every new session is a blank slate from the agents point of view. Capturing a workflow in skills is highly useful for your own workflows that you refine over time because you don’t have to reintroduce the concepts. You can use a lot of these triggers like hooks and scripts required by the skill use to inject a fair amount of constraints and determinism, and lean on the abductive abilities of the LLM to fill in the reasoning gaps. Teams also compile libraries of skills in plugin form via marketplaces to allow a certain amount of conformity of process, procedure, etc.

This is an interesting skill plugin for me because I actually face this inverse problem a fair amount where you want to teach people about a repo and the skills associated with it so they understand the intent behind things quickly. Seeing a bunch of skill commands and behaviors doesn’t always make clear why things are the way they are. The people on the other end need context, and the rapidity with which you can create fairly complex stuff means you need a faster way than “three months of onboarding” to get people up to speed.