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Skills package domain knowledge such as valuation and risk scoring into files it discovers and loads only when... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-the-claw-skills-shell-codeact-and-background-agents-du9fyqwle og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DU9fyqwlE.png og:image:alt: Scaling the Claw: Skills, Shell, CodeAct and Background Agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Scaling the Claw: Skills, Shell, CodeAct and Background Agents **[.NET Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/dotnet)** · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Four additions make the agent genuinely useful. Skills package domain knowledge such as valuation and risk scoring into files it discovers and loads only when a request calls for them, including skills managed centrally in Foundry that update with no redeploy. Shell access lets it reorganise a messy folder of trade confirmations, confined to one working directory. CodeAct gives it a sandbox where it writes and runs code to work out an answer rather than guessing at the arithmetic. Background agents let it research several tickers at once and pull the results back together. 📌 This event is part of a series. Learn more here: https://aka.ms/FMTA/series 🔗 Learn more by exploring the resource: https://aka.ms/AgentHarness #MicrosoftReactor #LearnConnectBuild [eventID:27519] ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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