Excellent piece on higher-order skills for agents from my friend Ben:

"I think skills — the little markdown-and-prompt bundles that have become the dominant unit of 'thing the model knows how to do repeatedl' — can have a much higher ceiling, just like coding does, when you make skills that work on skills: Higher-order skills.

And the gap between the two shapes of composition, the two ways you might think you're combining skills, is the difference between getting cake and getting recipes for better cake."