The skills you need for 2026 — starting with Agentic Engineering. Agent-first stack across UI, data, and ops.
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Designing autonomous agents end-to-end: planning, tool use, memory, evals.
Building custom agents on Anthropic's managed infra.
Anthropic's pre-built agent harness on managed infrastructure.
Model Context Protocol — wiring agents to tools and external services.
Spawning isolated loops that return summaries to a master agent.
Reusable invocable workflows that compose into super-agents.
Deterministic scripts that run outside the loop on tool events.
Packaging skills, agents, hooks for distribution.
The terminal agent — slash skills, sub-agents, MCP, hooks.
Measuring agent skill performance with variance analysis.
Retrieval pipelines, embeddings, hybrid search.
Persistent agent memory, context windows, cognee-style stores.
Image generation via Gemini CLI — featured images, diagrams, illustrations.
Programmatic video, agent-driven cuts, MP4 pipelines.
App Router conventions: async params, edge vs node, server actions.
CSS-first config, theme tokens, container queries.
ABC design system tokens + primitives.
Postgres + RLS as the single source of truth across the stack.
Edge, ISR, preview branches, build telemetry.
Visual regression + agent-driven E2E.