Agent skills are suddenly everywhere in the AI engineering world, and for good reason. They solve a very real problem: AI agents may be smart, but they still know nothing about your organization unless you explicitly teach them. They do not automatically understand your internal workflows, your service catalog, your production readiness rules, or the exact steps needed to fix recurring issues.
That is where agent skills come in. They give your AI agent reusable knowledge, structured instructions, and workflow-specific context so it can do meaningful work instead of acting like a generic chatbot with tool access.