This is going to have such a massive positive impact on the accuracy and reliability of AI agents in software development.
The new Skills feature in the Google Antigravity IDE finally solves the problem of AI agents giving us wildly unpredictable/inaccurate results for the same prompt.
Too little context is terrible for agent accuracy -- but things can get even worse when your agent has access to TOO MUCH context for a particular task.
The truth is your coding agent has access to a boatload of input/context that will not be necessary for any given task -- but still take part in the agent's thinking process.
Every single file and folder from every segment segment of your codebase... all the frontend, all the backend, all the tests, scripts, utilities, style guides...
Even all the MCP servers you have connected will also be part of the context...
So what do you think is gonna happen when you give instructions like, "Fix the password reset bug in the API"?
Your agent is going to take every single context it has into consideration for how best to respond to you.
You were only expecting it to change 2 files in the backend, but it went ahead to change 27 files all over the place ("Oh this vibe coding thing is such a scam, i knew it")
Because you gave it the full responsibility of figuring out what exactly what you thinking. Figuring out the precise locations you wanted changes to be made in. Essential, reading your mind -- when all it gave it was a painfully vague instruction.
And while it can do that a decent amount of the time, other times it fails miserably. "Miserably" as far what you were expecting is concerned.
And this is exactly what this new Skills feature from Google is trying to solve.
Skills let you finally give structure to the agent -- you can now specify a high-level series of tasks the agent should perform in response to certain kinds of prompts.
Instead of using all the context and input all the time, the agent processes only the context relevant to the task at hand.
It can still intelligently decide how to make changes to your codebase -- but only withing the framework and constraints you've provided with Skills.
And this is the major breakthrough.
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