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What are agent skills? 1. Get the teacher (Claude Opus 4.5) to build a kernel 2. Make an agent skill from the trace 3. Take your skill to an open source, smaller, or cheaper model Deep dive tutorial into building kernels with agent skills Setup and Install Skill Generation Generate the Skill Evaluate on a Different Model How the evaluation in upskill works What's Next Resources The best thing about agent skills is upskilling your agents on hard problems. There are two ways to look at that:
You can take Opus 4.5 or other SOTA models and tackle the hardest problems out there.
You can take models that run on your laptop and upskill them to harder problems. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to take on the latter.
This blog post walks through the process of using a new tool, upskill, to generate and evaluate agent skills with large models and use them with smaller models. We will benchmark upskill on the task of writing CUDA kernels for diffusers models, but the process is generally useful for cutting costs, or using smaller models on hard and domain-specific problems.
