Domain-Specific Skills
Where general business skills capture how you do ordinary work, domain-specific skills capture deep expertise in a particular field — the specialized knowledge, rules, and judgment of law, medicine, finance, a specific codebase, a regulated process. These are the highest-value and highest-stakes skills: they let an agent operate in a specialized domain, but they demand the most rigor, because being wrong in a specialized domain is both more likely and more costly. This post is about capturing deep domain expertise as skills.
Domain-specific skills capture deep field expertise — law, finance, a specific codebase, a regulated process. The highest-value and highest-stakes skills, demanding the most rigor: grounded authoritative knowledge (not the model's hallucinations), precisely-stated rules, verification, and human oversight.