Manage Your Agent’s Loadout with Dr. Skill

Keep Your Agent’s Skills and Tools in Check When I wrote “How to Fix Your Context”, it was really hard to find real-world examples of the Tool Loadout pattern. But as Skills have grown in popularity, our contexts have become cluttered. Recently, I met a developer who told me how his enterprise agent was loading over 600 skills. All the skills created by colleagues were getting pulled in by default, without alerting the dev, silently degrading the context before a word was typed. Last week, my Hermes agent kept loading the wrong note-taking skill. SSH’ing into the machine, I discovered Hermes ships with nearly 100 skills. Deleting the stock note-taking skill helped, but didn’t fully solve the issue. And I wasn’t eager to pore over every Hermes skill. So I built drskill, a tool that evaluates all the skills and MCPs in your global or project environment. Install drskill with uv tool install drskill or pip install drskill. Then run drskill scan: Here, drskill spots an error (my plumb…