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Guy Podjarny — founder of Tessl and Snyk
#42 Jul 14

Episode 42 · Jul 14

Skills Are the New Code: How We Secure the Context Our Agents Consume, with Guy Podjarny (Tessl)

Guy Podjarny · founder of Tessl and Snyk

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We sit down with Guy Podjarny, founder of Tessl and Snyk, to make the case that skills are the new code. Guy built Snyk into the company that taught developers to secure their dependencies, and now he argues that agent skills have become a new unit of software, one that deserves the same rigor we give source code. We get into why context is the only layer that runs straight inside the model's reasoning loop, so it is effectively the programming language for models, and the new supply chain that follows (there are already 2 million skills in the open ecosystem, up from near zero last September). We cover why a malicious or negligent skill is so hard to catch, why there is still no npm or PyPI for skills, and why enforcement is moving into the harness because the model cannot police its own context. Guy also explains why skills rot, so a skill you write today can be useless or harmful three months from now without a plan to maintain it.

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