Skills are new features: Building Skill-Centric Harness — Yogendra Miraje, FactSet
Skills replace traditional UI features as the primary vehicle for business logic in agentic products
“skills really tell you how a task gets done”
FactSet principal AI engineer Yogendra Miraje argues that as agents become the primary product interface, skills become the new home for features and business logic — replacing screens, buttons, and forms. He shares FactSet's journey from a proprietary 'blueprints' system to fully adopting Anthropic's open-source skills framework, then building a custom enterprise harness around it. The talk targets teams building domain-specific agentic products beyond coding assistants, offering a practical framework: prompts define who the agent is, tools define what it can access, and skills define how tasks get done.