Generative AI Fundamentals Map

Map/Agents and organisations/Wave 6

Skills

Reusable procedures written down as units an agent can load.

capabilityEmerging Open on the map →

Facts

Lane: Agents and organisations
Wave: 6 of 12 (build order, not a date)
Needs: 1 boxes all the way back through hard links
Unlocks: 0 boxes downstream through hard links
Leverage: None
Cluster: Agents at work

Evidence as of October 2026

Agent Skills and AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md files are the current way procedures are handed to agents.

01Are we in a continual learning overhang? (LessWrong, Jan 2026)

Around it

Needs · 1

Tool use and code executioncapability · Built today

Unlocks · 1

Knowledge-rich agentsstage · Emerging · helps, not required

Loops and off-ramps

Company knowledge loopreinforcing loop

Openings researchers' judgement, October 2026 scouting

Startup room 44/100 · rank 51 of 124 Research room 48/100 · rank 72 of 124

Crowding3 Lab overlap5 Small-team fit4 Buyer today2 Research openness4

Depth: light
Players: SKILL.md standard (30+ tools); Anthropic Agent Skills; public skill repos
Wedge: Skill supply-chain security and evaluation (26.1% of public skills had a vulnerability). startup