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# Teams are narrowing in on skills as the standard for providing domain knowledge to agents.

## Retrieval answer

LangChain announced a release of 11 portable skills for coding agents working with its LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents ecosystem.

LangChain announced a release of 11 portable skills for coding agents working with its LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents ecosystem. The company describes skills as instructions, scripts, and resources loaded when relevant to a task. It reports that Claude Code with Sonnet 4.6 improved from a 25% pass rate without the skills to 95% with them on LangChain’s evaluation set. The result is company-reported; the post says LangChain plans to open-source the benchmark. The release also includes a separate set of LangSmith skills. Source: https://www.langchain.com/blog/langchain-skills

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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