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#423 Neil: AI Agent Skills That Separate Working Agents From Broken Ones
Published 2 months ago
Description
Your agent works in testing and breaks in front of real users. The fix is not a better prompt. These 7 AI agent skills cover everything between a working demo and a reliable production system that actually holds up. ⚡
We'll Talk About:
- What AI agent skills actually mean beyond prompt engineering
- Why system design is the foundation everything else depends on
- How vague tool schemas cause most agent failures
- Why retrieval quality sets the upper limit on agent performance
- How to handle API failures before they crash your whole system
- What security layers every production agent needs
- How to measure and trace agent performance with real metrics
- Why product thinking determines whether users actually trust your agent
Keywords: AI Agent Skills, System Design For AI Agents, Tool And Contract Design, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Reliability Engineering, AI Tools.
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