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title: "Skill · Glossary · Agentic Atlas"
description: "a named, described body of instructions: one useful packaging and reuse surface for workflow behavior, not the corpus's unit of analysis. (baseline skill)."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary/skill"
last-updated: "2026-09-23"
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1. [Agentic Atlas](https://agentic-atlas.dev/)
2. [Glossary](https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary)
3. Skill

Glossary definition

# Skill

Atlas key

skill

Catalog order

39

Used in

4 sections

Catalog revision · e0cb75881244b1a82193ca738b82a0d508dd62e822524ae82873ec79d51dbb61

a named, described body of instructions: one useful packaging and reuse surface for workflow behavior, not the corpus's unit of analysis. ([baseline skill](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/baseline-skill))

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## Used in

- [The Context Economy](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/context-economy#model-and-claims-the-price-list) Model and claims · 1 mention
- [Deferred Context](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/deferred-context#intent-the-problem-and-the-move) Intent · 1 mention
- [Foundations](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/foundations#why-it-matters) Why it matters · 1 mention
- [Reference Data](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/reference-data#application-industrial-scale-where-the-rag-analogy-holds) Application · 1 mention