@hwchase17 Ngl I really like this direction. The more AGENTS.md, skills, and tool config start looking like portable interfaces instead of a…

A developer expressed enthusiasm for the emerging convergence of AGENTS.md, agent skills (SKILL.md), and tool configuration toward portable, cross-tool interfaces rather than siloed, tool-specific instruction files. This aligns with a broader industry trend: AGENTS.md emerged as a cross-tool standard to replace fragmented per-tool files (e.g., .cursorrules, CLAUDE.md), while the SKILL.md open standard — announced by Anthropic in December 2025 — enables packaging of expertise and workflows into portable directories that any compatible AI agent can load. Within three months of its launch, 16+ major AI tools (including Google's Gemini CLI, OpenAI's Codex, JetBrains' Junie, and GitHub Copilot) adopted the standard, signaling strong industry momentum toward interoperable, portable agent configuration interfaces.

Portable agents
great question! knowledge (system prompt, skills) and tools (apis, clis, whatnot) will always be needed, even as the best way to build agent…
its a directionally correct form factor but way too much lock in
im excited about agent harnesses because i think are the first stable agent abstractions we can build on top (which is why we're investing s…
Open Harness, separated from model providers is a critical architectural pattern.

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