Rhythm X Zhihu Hong Kong Event Recruitment Skills, Register Now for a Chance to Showcase Live
Six months ago, "How to Write Good Prompts" was the hottest topic in the group. Now, this question is clearly outdated. Replacing prompts is Skills.
The most apparent turning point, of course, was the emergence of OpenClaw.
Even though it could be said to be a copy, not an original of the agent, it truly brought the concept of the agent into the public eye, closer to the kind of AI you've seen in movies: has personality, can remember things, can plan, can truly get things done for you, not just answer your questions.
In the past, when everyone used AI, essentially they were using a very smart search engine—you ask, it answers, the next round starts again. The agent extended this line. It will actively advance tasks, detour obstacles, move on to the next step after completing one. The first time you see it actually handle a complete thing, you will have a strange feeling: this thing is really helping me get things done.
Then everyone started to think: how to make it more capable.
This is the real reason Skills took off. Not because Skills themselves are so novel, but because the agent made people seriously think about this issue for the first time. What Skills are doing is equipping the agent with specialized capabilities.
Why are Skills so important now?
An agent without Skills is like a smart but uneducated newbie. You ask him to do financial analysis, he will think, but his actions are slow, error-prone, many steps require you to guide him step by step. Skills are like him having learned the complete process of this field in advance—coming in, he can hit the ground running, without needing you to correct him repeatedly.
Now the most widely spread Skills in the community are concentrated in several directions: workflow automation, integrating operations that used to bounce back and forth between multiple tools into a chain that the agent can run on its own; injecting rules into professional domains, ensuring that the agent does not play arbitrarily when performing tasks with high accuracy requirements such as legal, medical, and financial tasks; personalization adaptation, tuning the agent to your most preferred way of working, remembering your preferences, language style, judgment criteria; of course, there is also a category of Skills related to money matters, such as trading.
The arbitrage opportunities on Polymarket, ordinary people cannot understand the odds, nor do they have time to watch trends and calculate spreads. But an agent equipped with specialized Skills can: monitor in real-time, identify deviations, decide whether to enter, the entire process does not require you to have any background knowledge of predicting the market.
The same goes for quantitative trading. In the past, this was the domain of investment banks and hedge funds, requiring writing strategy code, integrating with APIs, and monitoring backtest data. Now, someone has packaged the entire process into Skills, which can be installed on an agent to begin executing strategies on exchanges. The barrier to entry has shifted from "knowing programming and understanding finance" to "knowing how to install Skills."
This shift is not about making people lazy but about pushing the boundaries of capability outward.
Behind these demands is a common logic: people are starting to seriously regard the agent as a long-term collaborative partner rather than a disposable tool.
So, do you have any novel ideas that you would like to turn into your own agent's skill?
In the past, you had ideas, identified a market gap, but couldn't execute. You couldn't code, didn't have time to learn, outsourcing was expensive and slow, so that idea ended up rotting in your notes. Now things are different. Using vibe coding, you can directly mold your idea into a Skill—without building a website, without creating an app, without needing servers, without maintaining a team.
The underlying logic of this is: an agent will be a must-have for everyone. Your created Skills don't need you to acquire customers yourself; they naturally run on every agent that people are already using. The market is there, the channel is there, you just need to build something that others haven't.
Previously, between "I have a great idea" and "I have a working product," there was a technical team. Now, this distance has been compressed into a single weekend.
To showcase more good skills, BlockBeats and Zhihu partnered to host an event in Hong Kong on April 21 with the theme "Decrypting Web 4.0: When AI Agents Take Over On-chain Permissions."

Scan the QR code or click here to sign up for skills
At this event supported by Wanxiang Blockchain and the HKUST Business School, top industry leaders will share their unique perspectives. We will discuss the potential of the "Agent Autonomous Economy," the necessity of on-chain automation, and the new financial models brought by agents.
At the same time, we have also invited a high-quality Skills team in the field of transactional finance and changing payment habits. The flow of funds is the top priority during transactions, and everyone wants the Agent to earn money. These Skills Demos will show us the cutting-edge financial transformation and see which ones can change our lifestyle habits and perceptions.
Now, we want your skills to be seen too.
You can click here to sign up, submit your skills link to us, and if you are also in Hong Kong during the "Hong Kong Web3 Carnival" event, you will have the opportunity to showcase it to all the audience at our Hong Kong event. Sign-up link
If you have developed a truly useful Skills and want more people to see it, you can sign up now.
Sign-up link: https://bbzx2018.feishu.cn/share/base/form/shrcnVbh5sSWAY1yMSex7RXBCLh
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