status	active
lead	Oded Har-Tal
people	Oded Har-Tal
created	2026-03-10

Skills vs Sub-Agents: An Interactive Exploration

A Jupyter notebook that walks through the two fundamental patterns for extending AI coding assistants — skills (context injection) and sub-agents (context isolation) — with live API calls, conversation traces, and inline visualizations.

Quick Start

cp .env.example .env   # add your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
uv sync
uv run jupyter notebook notebook.ipynb

The notebook ships with pre-recorded outputs. Re-run cells to reproduce with your own API key.

What's Included

The project is fully self-contained. The src/ directory contains a bundled sample codebase (from the MCP benchmark project) that the notebook's agent loops explore during experiments. No external dependencies beyond an Anthropic API key are needed.