Agent Skills for Data Practitioners

Overview

A hands-on half-day workshop on Agent Skills for data practitioners. You learn what they are, how they differ from MCP and RAG, and build your own so your agents get the right context for your workflows.

What you'll cover

• ▸Context engineering: prompting, skills, MCP, and RAG compared
• ▸Anatomy of a skill: description, allowed tools, runtime context, domain knowledge
• ▸When a skill fires and how the agent loads it
• ▸Subagents: parallel work and when it pays off

What you'll be able to do

• ✓Pick between a skill, an MCP server, and RAG for a given task
• ✓Build a skill for your own workflow
• ✓Split work across subagents from a skill