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Agents Overview

This section covers cross-agent concepts you can reuse across tools and providers.

  • Prompt: what to do right now
  • Tools: low-level capabilities (filesystem, shell, APIs)
  • MCP: standardized way to connect external systems/data/tools
  • Skills (SKILL.md): reusable procedural playbooks
  • Subagents: delegated workers with isolated context/permissions

Most agent systems share similar foundations.
What usually changes outcome quality is not raw model power, but:

  • workflow design
  • context discipline
  • repeatability across users and runs