What is a skill chain and why does it produce better AI output?
A skill chain is essentially a macro skill made up of multiple individual skills that fire sequentially. Each skill is a markdown file — a playbook — and a skill chain runs those playbooks back-to-back: skill one fires and calls skill two, skill two fires and calls skill three, and so on. The reason this produces better output than a single skill is compounding quality: each layer refines, checks, or builds on what came before. Skill chains aren't a brand-new concept, but they're a critical unlock for anyone trying to get genuinely autonomous, high-quality results from AI agents rather than just assisted drafts.
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