IBM's watsonx Orchestrate now supports agent skills, a concept pioneered by Anthropic, enabling enterprise agents to share reusable instructions without duplicating configuration. Skills use a SKILL.md file with dynamically loaded markdown references and executable scripts that run outside the LLM context window. A concrete open-source example demonstrates two agents (helpdesk and SRE) sharing an IT incident response skill, with design rationale covering why skills differ from inline instructions, why reference files are separated, and why deterministic scripts handle severity scoring instead of LLM inference.
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