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Skills That Carry Files

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100

The review guard’s checklist is forty items. Three screens of Markdown in SKILL.md would load all forty every time the skill fires, including for the small reviews where only three apply.

skills.md offers a better arrangement: skills can bundle scripts, references, and assets alongside their instructions. The body stays short and names the files; those files are not included automatically in the model context. The agent must explicitly read or execute them when needed.

Packages: Shipping an Agent

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100

You have an extension. It registers a tool, a /guard command, and a renderer for its own session entries; a skill tells the model when to use the tool. A colleague wants to install the same setup. Sending a copy of .pi/ may leave them with project-specific paths, missing resources, or unmanaged dependencies. A package gives those resources a single distribution unit, but does not by itself guarantee compatibility or make untrusted code safe.