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$ Skills, Pipes, and the Unix Philosophy: Why Agents Should Run Programs, Not Replace Them →
The Unix philosophy — small programs, composed through pipes, doing one thing well — turns out to be an ideal operating model for AI agents. Skills leverage this by guiding agents to use battle-tested programs rather than reinventing them. Here's why that beats building custom MCP servers for most workflows.