Barry Zhang¶
Summary¶
Engineer at Anthropic, co-creator of Agent Skills with Mahesh Murag. Presented "Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead" at AI Engineer Summit (December 2025).
Contributions¶
Agent Skills¶
Co-created the Skills paradigm — organized folders of procedural knowledge that agents can dynamically load. Key insight: agents are universal, but lack domain expertise. Skills provide that expertise without rebuilding the agent for each domain.
Twitter: @barry_zyj