From utils to utility_skills: We've Learned Nothing.

We are recreating every anti-pattern from software engineering.

Teams are grouping AI tools into generic buckets:
❌ "utility_skills"
❌ "helper_agents"
❌ "common_prompts"

THE SAME MISTAKE we spent years unlearning in code!

Generic groupings hide intent. A skill called "data_processor" could do anything. An agent in "helpers" reveals nothing about its purpose.

Specificity forces clarity. Name it for what it does. Period.

The pattern that killed maintainability in codebases is now killing discoverability in AI.

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