Agentic Skills As Knowledge Management System?

In a session today there was some discussion about agentic skills. A skill is mostly a markdown text file often named, yes, skill.md with a natural language text plus some front matter, describing some specific workflow or bit of knowledge or capability. Somebody external opined that such skills were a good way of codifying organisational knowledge, which might be useful ‘because of the ageing demographics’ on the work floor and people retiring. Would agentic skills succeed where process descriptions, intranets, 1990-2010 knowledge systems, quality assurance systems all failed when aimed at documenting the actual knowledge present in an organisation? I doubt it. Deep knowledge is relational, chunky, only its underlying facts and heuristics can be codified. And people will resist codification, for different reasons. Such as recognising the futility of it, or recognising its aim of making the people with knowledge superfluous. Or both. Are skills different enough from earlier systems…