knowledge-work-plugins

https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins - Apache 2.0 licensed "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" used to be BOFH lore, now it has become real. This is great.

So as a software engineer with experience with coding agents, when I look at https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins I'm like: oh that's it, a bunch of skills files? So the value of a skill file is that it tells the model how to format its response for use within the software environment surrounding the model. With programming, it's mostly about how to tell it to use some API. But all the model can do is reply some text, and the actual work needs to be done by the software(the agent harness) which needs to parse the model response and translate it into actual work. My point is there is no magic: the model just reads the skill file and then uses that as a template for a textual response, which is then parsed and processed by traditional software. So in terms of legal skills, a stand-alone skill like the contract review skill a

> You're no longer developing software, you're doing therapy for robots. Or, really, hacking in "learning", building your knowhow-base. > But it delivers enormous compounding gains, and you can use your agent to do significant parts of it for you. Strong yes to both, so strong that it's curious Claude Code, Codex, Claude Cowork, etc., don't yet bake in an explicit knowledge evolution agent curating and evolving their markdown knowledge base: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins Unlikely to help with benchmarks. Very likely to improve utility ratings (as rated by outcome improvements over time) from teams using the tools together. For those following along at home: This is the return of the "expert system", now running on a generalized "expert system machine".