How Anthropic’s ‘Skills’ make Claude faster, cheaper, and more consistent for business workflows

Anthropic launched a new capability on Thursday that allows its Claude AI assistant to tap into specialized expertise on demand, marking the company's latest effort to make artificial intelligenc [...]

Anthropic Skill scanners passed every check. The malicious code rode in on a test file.

Picture this scenario: An Anthropic Skill scanner runs a full analysis of a Skill pulled from ClawHub or skills.sh. Its markdown instructions are clean, and no prompt injection is detected. No shell c [...]

Anthropic launches enterprise ‘Agent Skills’ and opens the standard, challenging OpenAI in workplace AI

Anthropic said on Wednesday it would release its Agent Skills technology as an open standard, a strategic bet that sharing its approach to making AI assistants more capable will cement the company [...]

New framework lets AI agents rewrite their own skills without retraining the underlying model

One major challenge in deploying autonomous agents is building systems that can adapt to changes in their environments without the need to retrain the underlying large language models (LLMs).Memento-S [...]

MIT's new fine-tuning method lets LLMs learn new skills without losing old ones

When enterprises fine-tune LLMs for new tasks, they risk breaking everything the models already know. This forces companies to maintain separate models for every skill.Researchers at MIT, the Improbab [...]

Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models t [...]

Google’s ‘Nested Learning’ paradigm could solve AI's memory and continual learning problem

Researchers at Google have developed a new AI paradigm aimed at solving one of the biggest limitations in today’s large language models: their inability to learn or update their knowledge after trai [...]

One command turns any open-source repo into an AI agent backdoor. OpenClaw proved no supply-chain scanner has a detection category for it

Just two months ago, researchers at the Data Intelligence Lab at the University of Hong Kong introduced CLI-Anything, a new state-of-the-art tool that analyzes any repo’s source code and generates a [...]

OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell

Until recently, the practice of building AI agents has been a bit like training a long-distance runner with a thirty-second memory. Yes, you could give your AI models tools and instructions, but after [...]