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Progressive disclosure

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Design pattern for AI agent skills in which only each skill's name and description stay in context, and the full instructions, scripts and resources load only when a request matches the skill.

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How to Build a Microsoft Copilot Agent Fabric

2026-05-31 · Video on YouTube

he era of prompt engineering is ending. While organizations have spent years teaching employees how to write better AI prompts, this approach creates inconsistent results, limits scalability, and keeps humans trapped in every workflow step. Instead of relying…

The End of AI Bloat

2026-07-26 · Video on YouTube

AI agents that start fast often become slow, costly and unreliable as their prompts grow into huge instruction blobs. This episode shows architects and Copilot Studio makers how modular skills, progressive disclosure and solid governance keep enterprise…

2026-05-31 – How to Build a Microsoft Copilot Agent Fabric2026-07-26 – The End of AI Bloat2026-052026-07
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What are Skills for AI agents?

Modular units of situational expertise that are loaded when needed through progressive disclosure, as opposed to always-on guidance in a giant system prompt. · From the episode: The End of AI Bloat

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