{"id":189685,"date":"2025-12-13T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189685\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:28:08","slug":"openai-quietly-adopts-anthropics-modular-skills-framework-to-boost-agent-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189685\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI quietly adopts Anthropic\u2019s modular skills framework to boost agent capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI appears to be adopting the skills system Anthropic introduced in October, according to a discovery by user Elias Judin <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elias_judin\/status\/1999479682190966852\">shared on X<\/a>. Support for these skills has surfaced in both the Codex CLI tool and ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>Judin found directories named &#8220;pdfs&#8221; and &#8220;spreadsheets&#8221; containing &#8220;skill.md&#8221; files. These files provide specific instructions for processing documents and data. It&#8217;s basically like your prompt calling a more specific prompt to solve a complex subtask necessary for the main goal\u2014like extracting text from a PDF. Since it&#8217;s just a folder containing a Markdown file and maybe scripts, it&#8217;s easy to adapt.<\/p>\n<p><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29983 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/openai_skills.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" height=\"796\"\/>A look at the &#8220;skill.md&#8221; file for PDF handling reveals specific instructions for reading and creating documents. | Image: Elias Judin via GitHub<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p>Recommend our article<\/p>\n<p>        Share<\/p>\n<p>The file structure suggests OpenAI is organizing AI tools into app-like modules designed for specific tasks. Judin, who found the feature while using a &#8220;5.2 pro&#8221; model, documented the findings <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/eliasjudin\/oai-skills\/tree\/main\/spreadsheets\">on GitHub<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/anthropic-launches-skills-so-claude-can-automatically-pick-prompts-for-specialized-tasks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic debuted this modular system<\/a> in October to help its Claude assistant handle specialized tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI appears to be adopting the skills system Anthropic introduced in October, according to a discovery by user&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2670,61,60,1682,82],"class_list":["post-189685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-chatgpt","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-openai","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}