The State of GraphQL Agent Skills
summary
Agent Skills are a lightweight open format stored as a skill.md folder format that agents progressively load so ten or fifty skills don’t bloat context (authors report <1% of the window). Skills are already supported by Cloud Code, Codex, Anti-Gravity, Cursor, Open Code and Goose and appear in the public skills.sh directory. Apollo open-sources 14 skills, uses webhooks to auto-open PRs to keep skills in sync, and shows concrete fixes: add operation names, use variables, prefer non-null by decision, and honor federation ownership.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Why agents struggle
- 3:05What is a skill
- 4:09Common concerns about skills
- 5:55Skills vs MCP
- 7:23Agents won't need skills soon
- 9:32Tour of the ecosystem
- 11:04Skills for GraphQL
- 15:46Maintenance and scale
- 18:19Q&A
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