How does Skills usher in the era of "specialization" in AI?

We are experiencing a major foundational evolution in how AI is used.

In the past, if you wanted AI to help you write a company weekly report, you had to input a long prompt each time: “Help me summarize this week’s progress, use size 2 font for the title, refer to last year’s template, remember to pull data from this table…” Even then, AI would occasionally make mistakes in numbers or get the formatting mixed up.

Now, with the emergence of Claude Skills, this inefficient dialogue is a thing of the past.

1. What are Skills? From “Teaching Each Time” to “Direct Deployment”

Simply put, Skills are a set of standardized toolkits that instantly turn AI into a “domain expert.” It’s no longer just a sentence in a chat window but a tangible intelligent folder.

To help you write that weekly report, this folder usually contains three things:

1. Operation Manual (SKILL.md): An extremely detailed Markdown guide that specifies exactly how each word in the report should be written and which words are strictly forbidden.
2. Standard Templates (assets/): Company-wide Word or Excel templates. Instead of relying on “guesswork,” AI directly applies these standard files.
3. Automation Scripts (scripts/): If the report involves complex sales data calculations, Python scripts in this folder automatically run to produce 100% accurate figures.

The result: You only need to tell Claude “Generate the report as planned,” and it will automatically review the manual, extract data, apply templates, and produce a professional document that fully meets your expectations.

2. Efficient and Versatile: The “Plug-and-Play” Era of AI

Skills are designed with remarkable intelligence, addressing two core pain points of current AI:

• No Wasted Brainpower (On-Demand Loading): AI’s context window is expensive. Skills use “progressive loading”—AI only remembers the skill’s name normally; it only “opens” the folder to read detailed instructions when you actually need to write the report. This makes responses faster and costs lower.
• Cross-Platform Compatibility: The “report expert” configured on the web can be instantly transferred to your local programming assistant (Claude Code). This means your workflow logic is portable and not locked into a single platform.

3. Looking Toward the Endgame: From “Solo Warfare” to “Intelligent Society”

As Skills become widespread, AI operation modes will undergo revolutionary changes:

1. Stacking Skills (Skill + Skill): You can combine “Data Analysis Skill” and “German Translation Skill” like LEGO bricks. AI first processes data with the first skill, then translates the results into German with the second.
2. Integration of Brain and Manual (Skill + Agent): An Agent is the “brain,” and Skills are the expert guides it consults. You no longer need to painstakingly “train” a universal model; just give a general AI assistant different skill packs, and it can instantly transform from a “Legal Advisor” to a “Coding Expert.”
3. Collaboration Between Agents (Agent + Agent): In the ultimate scenario, your personal AI assistant, when it finds a task it’s not good at (like tax auditing), will automatically seek out and invoke other agents with “Tax Skills.” Intelligence will flow freely like water and electricity, dividing labor among different Agents.

4. Why is Web3 the Inevitable Choice for This Market?

If a single large AI model is the “neurons” of silicon civilization, then Skills are the “synapses” connecting these neurons.

Neurons only have potential; only when they are connected, combined, and act together through Skills does intelligence truly generate value. The introduction of Web3 is not just a “trend-hopping” move but an inevitable outlet for the AI intelligence value network.

1. Value Capture: From “Scattered Commands” to “High-Bar Assets”

Many think Skills are just code snippets without barriers. But when we broaden the perspective, the situation is entirely different:

• Combinatorial Premium: A single Skill is easy to copy, but if you bundle dozens of Skills tailored for specific industries (like multinational tax audits, on-chain quantitative strategies, privatized government processes) and add specific components, it creates a very high competitive barrier.
• Privatization of Intellectual Assets: Through Web3’s permission control, companies can encapsulate core business logic within private Skills. This means you’re not just selling code but an “executable professional consulting service.”
• Global “Micro-Payments” for Intelligence: Transactions in the AI era are high-frequency and cross-border. Web3 provides native currencies of silicon civilization, making one Agent invoking another’s Skills as natural as breathing—real-time settlement without complex international banking.

In summary: Skills provide the vehicle for value capture in the AI era, and Web3 offers the necessary global circulation and pricing mechanisms for these vehicles.

2. Security Guardrails: Making Value Flows “Dare to Happen”

As intelligence begins to generate high value, security becomes the only red line. To enable users to confidently let AI carry assets to execute Skills, we introduce three defenses via Web3:

• Fingerprint Verification (Hash): Each uploaded Skill is assigned a unique “hash fingerprint” of its folder contents. Like a digital seal, any byte change invalidates the fingerprint, ensuring you use an “untampered original.”
• On-Chain Registry: These fingerprints are recorded on an immutable blockchain. When you run a Skill, the system first verifies its source via the registry.
• Local Security Guard (Agent-Trust): A local tool called agent-trust acts as a security guard. Before your AI runs any script, it performs a fingerprint check. If anomalies are detected, execution is immediately halted, protecting your private keys and core assets.

Conclusion

Skills transform AI from “chatbots” into “execution experts,” completing the leap from 0 to 1.

Our Web3 Marketplace aims to build that value network from 1 to 100. We define not only a set of security standards but also a new set of intelligence trade rules for the AI era. In this network, every encapsulated piece of expertise is authenticated via fingerprint, priced through Web3, and under a secure framework, unlocking the global collaboration of silicon civilization. How will Skills usher in the era of “professional specialization” for AI?