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Knowledge Activation: AI Skills as the Institutional Knowledge Primitive for Agentic Software Development

Gal Bakal · Mar 16, 2026

The interesting move is packaging institutional knowledge as skills rather than as a searchable corpus: Atomic Knowledge Units, structured and governance-aware, that make agents act correctly instead of merely answer correctly. Deployed at Yahoo with 67 engineers (2.6 hours saved per week, NPS +35). Skills are also a natural unit of privilege: you can grant a team a capability without granting them the underlying documents.

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