agents

If you’ve built an Agent Skill and wired it to an MCP server, you already know the annoying part isn’t the skill. It’s everything around it. The instructions travel fine as a markdown file. The MCP server config does not, because every client wants its own directory layout, its own manifest, its own way of saying “run this process and pass it these environment variables.” Vercel, AWS, GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI, and the Cursor team shipped Agent Plugins 1....

Building AI agents sounds fun until you actually build one. Then a different set of problems shows up — ones nobody writes about. Here is what I have learned running agent systems in production: self-improvement conflicts with git, most knowledge bases hit a wall sooner than expected, and adding more agents almost never helps. The self-improvement problem One of the selling points of agents like Hermes is that they can self-reflect and improve, updating their own rules based on experience....