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Original: https://developers.googleblog.com/closing-the-knowledge-gap-with-agent-skills/
Status: generated
Summary
A Google for Developers post arguing that language models have fixed knowledge from a training cut-off while software engineering practice moves quickly, and reporting on building a Gemini API agent skill to close that gap. The authors evaluated it against a harness of 117 code-generation prompts, run with and without the skill, and report that newer models with strong reasoning support benefit markedly while older ones benefit far less. They also name two limitations: Vercel’s work suggesting direct instruction through AGENTS.md can be more effective, and the absence of any good skill update story, which risks leaving stale skill information in users’ workspaces.