I don't disagree with you, and I don't think this is anything nearing a catastrophic or fatal mistake. It's just kind of sloppy, I guess?
Let me just say: I'm nitpicking what I think is overall an incredible tool and a great new feature of said tool.
For a moment, pretend Subagents don't exist. And Anthropic just released "In-Thread Skills" (identical to what are now "Skills") and "Out-of-Thread Skills" (identical to Subagents). I feel like the library of Skills that would be published would be useful in more circumstances if this were the reality. Of course some may publish both versions of a thing, and of course you could do a shim of some kind, but it could be _nicer_.
Another similar thing: how are Skills different than the Slash Command Tool [0]? Why not just amend Slash Commands to allow them to include scripts and other supplementary files stored in a directory, and boom, you have Skills. Instead we have a net new primitive.
And the larger unfortunate reality is that because Claude Code is the white-hot center of this white-hot ecosystem, there are likely a dozen other tools in this space that are going to copy the exact same primitive set just to have perceived parity with CC.
I'm veering into "yelling at clouds" territory now, so I'll get off my soapbox. It's just one of those things that feels like it could be slightly more awesome than the awesome that it is, is all.
Let me just say: I'm nitpicking what I think is overall an incredible tool and a great new feature of said tool.
For a moment, pretend Subagents don't exist. And Anthropic just released "In-Thread Skills" (identical to what are now "Skills") and "Out-of-Thread Skills" (identical to Subagents). I feel like the library of Skills that would be published would be useful in more circumstances if this were the reality. Of course some may publish both versions of a thing, and of course you could do a shim of some kind, but it could be _nicer_.
Another similar thing: how are Skills different than the Slash Command Tool [0]? Why not just amend Slash Commands to allow them to include scripts and other supplementary files stored in a directory, and boom, you have Skills. Instead we have a net new primitive.
And the larger unfortunate reality is that because Claude Code is the white-hot center of this white-hot ecosystem, there are likely a dozen other tools in this space that are going to copy the exact same primitive set just to have perceived parity with CC.
I'm veering into "yelling at clouds" territory now, so I'll get off my soapbox. It's just one of those things that feels like it could be slightly more awesome than the awesome that it is, is all.
[0] https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/slash-commands#s...