Five rules for evaluating agent skills before they bloat your context window
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A Google Cloud developer-relations post lays out a five-rule playbook for checking whether agent skills (SKILL.md files) justify their context cost. The rules cover catching trigger collisions before running containers, running evaluations in isolated sandboxes rather than on laptops, comparing paired with/without-skill runs over repeated trials, keeping correctness separate from…