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# [Agent skills for AI coding agents: how they work, how to write one, and where they stop](https://halfcycle.hashnode.dev/agent-skills-for-ai-coding-agents-how-they-work-how-to-write-one-and-where-they-stop?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

How Claude Code and OpenAI Codex pick a skill, a worked SKILL.md, the six ways skills fail, and what a skill cannot do alone

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