Skills Are the New CLI

Every developer tool follows the same pattern: parse flags, run logic, print output. git commit -m "fix bug" doesn't know your repo uses conventional commits. npm audit doesn't know which vulnerabilities affect code you actually changed. The CLI doesn't know your project. You carry all the context. Skills flip this. A skill is a single Markdown file that teaches an AI agent how to do something in the context of your specific project . No binary, no build step, no runtime dependencies. Just instructions that adapt to whatever they find. Skills don't replace CLIs. They orchestrate them. I've built dozens of skills that call git , gh , npm , and custom scripts, then reason about the results. Here's what that orchestration layer can do that no single CLI can. What is a skill? A skill is a SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter: --- name : commit description : " >" Create git commits following repository style. Use when user asks to "commit changes", "/commit". Don't use for pushing code or cr