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>>moored+(OP)
Does anyone find that agents just don't use them without being asked?

>>esafak+E2
This has been a problem for us too. Sometimes they reach for skills, sometimes they don’t and just try to do the thing on their own. It’s annoying.

I think this is (mostly) a solvable problem. The current generation of SotA models wasn’t RLVR-trained on skills (they didn’t exist at that time) and probably gets slightly confused by the way the little descriptions are all packed into the same tool call schema. (At least that’s how it works with Claude Code.) The next generation will have likely been RLVRed on a lot of tasks where skills are available, and will use them much more reliably. Basically, wait until the next Opus release and you should hopefully see major improvements. (Of course, all this stuff is non-deterministic blah blah, but I think it’s reasonable to expect going from “misses the skill 30% of the time” to “misses it 2% of the time”.)

>>librar+z6
I think this is mostly a problem of making things skills that don't need to be skills (telling it how to do something it already knows how to do), and having way too much context, so that the skills effectively disappear. If skills are important, information about using skills needs to be a relatively large proportion of the context. Probably the right way to do it, is aggressively trimming anything that might distract from them.