Glossary · Agents & tools
Skill Invocation
The runtime-mediated process in which an eligible human, model, application, or other skill selects a skill and causes its instructions to enter the working context.
Why it matters
Explicit user access, implicit model routing, activation, argument binding, tool permission, and execution are separate decisions with different failure modes.
In practice
Define actor policy, evaluate descriptions with positive and near-miss requests, record the selected package identity, and keep host-specific invocation fields in tested adapters.
Common confusion
Invocation activates instructions. It does not automatically execute a command or bypass approval and sandbox policy.
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