Source: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/equipping-agents-for-the-real-world-with-agent-skills

Examines Anthropic's "Agent Skills" framework as a blueprint for modular specialization, highlighting its use of files, code, and progressive disclosure to overcome context limitations.

The text then establishes three foundational pillars for effective agency: adaptability, achieved through machine learning and real-time data; autonomous decision-making, based on a reliable internal "world model"; and ethical reasoning, which must be integral to the agent's logic.

Finally, the analysis details the practical implementation across high-stakes industries (healthcare, finance, autonomous systems), concluding with a discussion of technical challenges and the need for new regulatory frameworks to govern future self-improving agents.