#423 Neil: AI Agent Skills That Separate Working Agents From Broken Ones

Your agent works in testing and breaks in front of real users. The fix is not a better prompt. These 7 AI agent skills cover everything between a working demo and a reliable production system that actually holds up. ⚡

We'll Talk About:

• What AI agent skills actually mean beyond prompt engineering
• Why system design is the foundation everything else depends on
• How vague tool schemas cause most agent failures
• Why retrieval quality sets the upper limit on agent performance
• How to handle API failures before they crash your whole system
• What security layers every production agent needs
• How to measure and trace agent performance with real metrics
• Why product thinking determines whether users actually trust your agent

Keywords: AI Agent Skills, System Design For AI Agents, Tool And Contract Design, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Reliability Engineering, AI Tools.

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