Developer Productivity

AGENTS.md and SKILL.md: building a reusable agent toolbox

AGENTS.md and SKILL.md: building a reusable agent toolbox

2026-04-08 · 19 min

Context engineering gets more useful when the knowledge it depends on is packaged for reuse. In this post I map the portable core (AGENTS.md and SKILL.md), Copilot-specific concepts like custom instructions, agents and prompt files, and how to decide what knowledge belongs where.