Layer 05 · Shared agentic skills

A good skill takes a novicehalfway to an expert.

The bare tool leaves you at zero. The difference is what the model already knows how to do before you ask.

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The layerSame model, two days

Same model.Different day.

The difference is never the model. It is what it already knows how to do before you ask.

Before · the bare tool

A chat box that has never met your firm.

Every session starts at zero
You paste in the background, the format, the house style, the last decision. Then you do it again tomorrow, because none of it was kept.
It cannot see your work
The CRM, the case file, the shared drive and the inbox are all somewhere it has no reach into, so you become the integration.
It does not know the job
A blank chat box has no idea what a renewal comparison is, what your firm checks, or what would get flagged in an audit.
The draft needs rewriting
What comes back is generic and sounds like a chatbot, so the time you saved drafting goes back into making it sound like you.

This is where two real buyers bounced off it before they ever got to a second week. Nothing was wrong with the model.

After · skills, memory, and your data

An assistant that has read the file and knows the job.

It starts where you left off
What you decided and why is already there. Month six is better than week one, because the layer underneath kept learning.
03 Memory & knowledge
It reads the systems you work in
The record, the file and the document are reachable under the permissions you already grant people — not pasted in by hand.
02 Data
It knows the role
A skill takes a novice roughly halfway to an expert's output. The assistant arrives knowing what the job actually checks.
05 Agentic skills
It drafts in your voice
One page of the firm's own writing in, and what comes back reads like the firm instead of like a model.
05 Agentic skills

Same model underneath. The difference is everything stacked on top of it, and the line running down into the organisation's own data.

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Skillhouse

One person writes a good skill on Tuesday and by Wednesday every agent on the team has it. One shared set, synced to every machine, linked into whichever agents each person actually runs.

Ask us about itClaude Code · Codex · Cursor · Gemini
How Skillhouse keeps a team’s agent skills in syncAnyone on the team adds a skill to one shared set. Every member’s machine pulls only what changed, and each skill is unpacked once and symlinked into every agent directory found — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini. A skill written by one person goes back into the shared set, so the whole team gets it.EVERYONE GETS ITADDSYNCAnyone on the teamWrites a skill, or adds a repoOne shared setCurated for the org, versionedEvery machinePulls only what changedSYMLINKEDClaude CodeCodexCursorGeminiUnpacked once, linked into every agent directory it finds.LEGENDThe shared set — one place the whole team pulls fromOne copy on disk, linked into every agent
What we have published

The harness decideswhat a skill can do.

Reusable know-how only travels if the thing loading it does. These are the harnesses worth knowing, from the libraries you build with to the products your team already opens every morning.

8 min readRuntime, Harness, Product: How to Read the Agent Tooling LandscapeLangGraph, deepagents, Pi, OpenCode and OpenClaw get compared as if they were rivals. They sit at different points on one spectrum, and the spectrum is the useful part.7 min readOpenCode vs deepagents: Is a Human Waiting?OpenCode is the coding agent you install. deepagents is the harness you import. One question tells you which one your problem needs.7 min readOpenCode vs Pi: How Much Should a Harness Do?Two terminal coding harnesses, both open source, both model-agnostic, with opposite answers to the same question: how much should arrive already decided?8 min readWhat are agent tools?Agent tools are the functions, APIs, data sources, and actions that let AI systems move from conversation to controlled execution.
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