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AI Agent Skills vs Plugins: What's The Difference?



AI Skills and plugins may look similar, but they solve different problems.
This article explains:

  • What AI Agent Skills are

  • What traditional plugins do

  • How Skills provide deeper AI-native workflows

  • Why reusable capabilities are becoming important

  • When developers should choose Skills over plugins

As AI agents become more advanced, Skills will become an essential way to customize intelligent systems.