AI-Native Organisations Run on Skills: How to Structure and Scale Them — Imad Touil, QuantumBlack
Aug 28, 2026 · 20:31
Imad Touil of QuantumBlack argues AI-native organizations run on skills, where know-how lives, and ungoverned skills become technical debt. Most engineers create skills but few share or maintain them, so workflows are nondeterministic; hooks fire on events, subagents protect context windows, and teams rarely write MCPs. Using microservices design, he prescribes reusable, modular, discoverable, composable skills, citing Anthropic's standard and a skills bench where deterministic skills beat models alone. His centralized platform—searchable catalog, MCP/CLI access, dependencies, versioning, access control, evaluation—counters duplication, decay, ownership gaps, and insecure skills; governance falls to architecture, infra, and cyber leads; a 15-team simulation shows convergence once governed.
