AI Skills: how to give your AI agent verified knowledge it does not have
Your AI agent has a problem it does not tell you about: it does not know what it does not know. When you ask it to work with a library or tool that has changed since its training cutoff, it generates code with full confidence… using methods that no longer exist. It is not lying. It simply does not have the information. This is the knowledge cutoff problem, and it affects every model. For stable, mature technologies, the impact is small. But for libraries, bundles, and tools that evolve fast, it is a real problem that produces silent errors: code that looks correct but fails at runtime. ...