I find it amazing that skills are essentially excellent tools for humans to understand too.

I really wish they were called lessons instead of skills. It makes way more sense and prevents the overloading of the term "skill".

There is some papers [0] showing that the skill and agent files reduce the reasoning effectiveness in some use cases (e.g. autogenerated)

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988

reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034087

We'd just be overloading "lessons" as well, and even more so because it takes more work to ground the concept, given its larger semantic distance from what we're describing.