Era of Agents: Agent Skills Are the Apps

Hey guys! In the era of agents, our personal assistants will be completing tasks on our behalf. They will explore the internet as needed, query other services, place orders for us. They can do it either directly, or indirectly — by delegating the tasks, or sub-tasks, to other agents.

What this essentially means is that the application layer will be moving from software into agents. Agents will become the new, if you wish, execution environment. In the 80s and 90s it was the operating system. In the 2000s it was the browser. Some 10 years ago mobile joined the party. Now it will be the agents.

And what does that mean? It means the application logic will go into agent skills. Already today you can write agent skills and equip an AI agent with additional logic needed to complete a task. This logic can contain instructions on how to write a program to complete the task, how to make API calls, how to draw an image or create a video. This way we make it repeatable and deliverable to other people.

So think about it: the application layer is moving into agent skills. Not writing ad-hoc software anymore — putting the logic into agents that will do it when needed, in the best way it can be done.

Bye-bye!