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I didn't see any emergent behavior, just combining of skills (which I'll admit looks useful). Calling this emergent is click bait.

Regardless of title, it’s a good little reminder that I hadn’t thought of - skills can use skills. This makes sense - a skill is just a pre-loaded context Claude instance, so why not? But I also tend to think of one skill at a time. Thanks for the write up.

My big gripe with skills is getting claude webapp and claude code to get them to invoke them in the right situations (often unexpected situations) without explicitly telling it directly to use skill x + skill y.

Ideally I would build a bunch of atomic skills that combine well and claude just uses them naturally when the situation arises.

The activation reliability issue kingkongjaffa mentions is the real challenge here. It's the same problem you hit building any pattern-based system - getting it to recognise when a pattern applies vs when it should improvise.

I've been building transaction categorisation tools and the parallel is striking. You can have perfect pattern logic, but the model still needs to correctly identify "this situation matches pattern X" first. Sometimes it just... doesn't, even when it clearly should.

The router skill idea is interesting. Feels like pushing the meta-matching problem up a level though - now you need the router to activate reliably. Turtles all the way down.

A skill that creates other skills can be very useful as well.

E.g. you could have:

- a set of skills to use design patterns of a library

- a skill to add to this skill-set -- either when prompted by user or autonomously via a stop-hook

E.g. I set up this combination for design patterns for the Langroid[1] LLM-Agent framework:

https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/tree/main/pl...

[1] https://github.com/langroid/langroid

I wonder how complex we can make skills if claude code was able to read them dynamically. I am envisioning one session generates the skill.md while other session works on it and then I envision they both editing each other's skill.md. just a little dream I have, sorry for yapping.

Post has moved to https://vibeandscribe.xyz/posts/2026-01-07-emergent-behavior...

Year is wrong in the article by the way. It says 2025.

404 for me

Getting a 404 Not Found for this post - is the blog down?

I was really curious to read it given the comments + full disclosure my co-founder recently wrote about a similar topic ("To Tool or Not to Tool") https://blog.codeyam.com/p/to-tool-or-not-to-tool .

I wanted to see how this is similar or different with the focus on Claude Code + Skills in a more literal sense vs. tools in a more abstract sense.

Kiss of death? I'm seeing "404 Not Found nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)"

No AI could code a better seahorse emoji xD