# AI Agent Skills Explained: What They Are and Which Ones to Use

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Podcast: [HTML All The Things - Web Development, AI, and Developer Careers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/html-all-the-things-web-development-ai-and-developer-careers-863818)
Published: 2026-09-01T06:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.htmlallthethings.com/podcast/ai-agent-skills-explained-what-they-are-and-which-ones-to-use
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## Resource

Most of us spend far too much time teaching our AI coding agents the same lessons: ask questions before coding, write a specification, divide the work into tickets, test everything, and review the finished result. Agent skills let us package those instructions into reusable workflows that an agent can load whenever they’re needed.

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