alt.hn

1/22/2026 at 6:25:25 PM

Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/skill-md

by skeptrune

1/22/2026 at 9:43:41 PM

There was already a “standard” published by Anthropic. How is this different?

by moltar

1/23/2026 at 12:48:12 AM

In hindsight the title here is weird. It's meant to refer to the existing standard, but doesn't read that way.

by skeptrune

1/22/2026 at 9:05:12 PM

> Deprecating install.md

> Last Friday we announced install.md and it didn't see much adoption.

With thrash like this why would anyone adopt this for something serious?

It's just an .md file, so the overhead is low. The lack on conviction in your design does not inspire confidence though.

by ClassAndBurn

1/22/2026 at 11:11:41 PM

Yes, this is ridiculous. Far too much chrun in this ecosystem. This decreases my confidence in this Mintlify company; given this, they seem like the type to randomly rugpull when they feel like it.

by RadiozRadioz

1/22/2026 at 11:55:00 PM

It smells of gambling fallacy. Surely, this time theyll win AI and itll finally find that corner case or function flow

by cyanydeez

1/23/2026 at 12:52:39 AM

Yeah, I can understand where you're coming from. I guess there's balance to the extent that being overly stubborn is also not a great thing. Prioritization at an early stage startup is a tough task.

by skeptrune

1/23/2026 at 7:31:37 AM

There is no world outside of a cult or hype bubble where a 6 day turnaround time from announcement to deprecation is acceptable for a standard.

Standards are something that multiple independent groups can build on and should be somewhat stable.

If this was labeled as experimental than maybe, although its crazy to waste time publishing if you are working on something that rapidly iterating. Its not though, because everyone in this AI boom is rushing to be the winner takes all, and is trying their best to signal to the crowd that they are that winner.

by lovich

1/22/2026 at 8:37:28 PM

I feel like there is a new one of these everyday

by petcat

1/22/2026 at 8:47:50 PM

links are broken to cloudflare and vercel. who's writing these...

by numbers

1/22/2026 at 9:10:09 PM

Well, given the subject ..

by christoph-heiss

1/23/2026 at 12:58:45 AM

Fixed now!

by skeptrune

1/22/2026 at 8:59:29 PM

Phew, at least this is under .well-known/

by reddalo