--- schema: 1 type: video title: >- AI-Native Organisations Run on Skills: How to Structure and Scale Them — Imad Touil, QuantumBlack description: >- Imad Touil opens with a show of hands. Who has built a skill? Most of the room. Who shares them with their team? Fewer. Who governs and maintains them across the organization? A handful. That collapsing sequence is the talk, because he argues skills are where an organization's actual know how ends up living. Of the four things inside a workflow, hooks only fire on events, sub agents mostly exist to protect the context window, and almost nobody writes their own MCP servers. What is left is skills, and if those are unstructured then the workflow was never deterministic to begin with. His warning is that ungoverned skills become a recognizable kind of technical debt. Teams on the same stack quietly build the same skill repeatedly. Quality decays unless skills are retested against new models, not just against their original task. Nobody knows who owns one. Composability does not happen by accident. There is a real security edge too, since skills carry scripts, so pulling a public one without a checking pipeline is a supply chain decision. His fix borrows from the microservices era wholesale: a catalog with metadata and search, dependencies, versioning so a harness pulls the current release, access control, and named human owners across architecture, infrastructure and security. He is blunt that governance is where technology stops solving it. Speaker info: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/imad-touil/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Three questions, and the hands that drop 1:33 - The agentic stack, inner loop and outer 2:56 - Why specify, plan, task, implement is one step 4:19 - What the full lifecycle actually contains 5:39 - Organizations run many lifecycles, not one 7:03 - Where the know how actually lives 8:27 - Designing skills like microservices 9:48 - Progressive disclosure and token cost 11:09 - Composing regulation skills into an audit trail 12:30 - Ungoverned skills as technical debt 13:52 - What a central skills platform needs 15:14 - Governance, and who owns which domain 16:34 - Simulating fifteen teams over six months 17:58 - Applying the same idea to whole workflows 19:22 - Registries, evaluation and auto evolving skills --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/M05vON8i0aI-youtube-c037f48b40a730bc536e Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - 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Who has built a skill? Most of the room. Who shares them with their team? Fewer. Who governs and maintains them across the organization? A handful. That collapsing sequence is the talk, because he argues skills are where an organization's actual know how ends up living. Of the four things inside a workflow, hooks only fire on events, sub agents mostly exist to protect the context window, and almost nobody writes their own MCP servers. What is left is skills, and if those are unstructured then the workflow was never deterministic to begin with. His warning is that ungoverned skills become a recognizable kind of technical debt. Teams on the same stack quietly build the same skill repeatedly. Quality decays unless skills are retested against new models, not just against their original task. Nobody knows who owns one. Composability does not happen by accident. There is a real security edge too, since skills carry scripts, so pulling a public one without a checking pipeline is a supply chain decision. His fix borrows from the microservices era wholesale: a catalog with metadata and search, dependencies, versioning so a harness pulls the current release, access control, and named human owners across architecture, infrastructure and security. He is blunt that governance is where technology stops solving it. Speaker info: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/imad-touil/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Three questions, and the hands that drop 1:33 - The agentic stack, inner loop and outer 2:56 - Why specify, plan, task, implement is one step 4:19 - What the full lifecycle actually contains 5:39 - Organizations run many lifecycles, not one 7:03 - Where the know how actually lives 8:27 - Designing skills like microservices 9:48 - Progressive disclosure and token cost 11:09 - Composing regulation skills into an audit trail 12:30 - Ungoverned skills as technical debt 13:52 - What a central skills platform needs 15:14 - Governance, and who owns which domain 16:34 - Simulating fifteen teams over six months 17:58 - Applying the same idea to whole workflows 19:22 - Registries, evaluation and auto evolving skills --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/M05vON8i0aI-youtube-c037f48b40a730bc536e Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/ai-native-organisations-run-on-skills-how-to-struct-e3cfc3d1ac34 · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks --- #### Chunk 0: Document excerpt (0:13 to 1:51) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 1: Document excerpt (1:51 to 3:09) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 2: Document excerpt (3:09 to 4:37) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 3: Document excerpt (4:37 to 5:57) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 4: Document excerpt (5:57 to 7:03) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 5: Document excerpt (7:03 to 8:36) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 6: Document excerpt (8:36 to 10:04) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 7: Document excerpt (10:04 to 11:25) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 8: Document excerpt (11:25 to 12:43) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 9: Document excerpt (12:43 to 14:11) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 10: Document excerpt (14:11 to 15:17) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 11: Document excerpt (15:17 to 16:46) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 12: Document excerpt (16:46 to 18:15) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 13: Document excerpt (18:15 to 19:34) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 14: Document excerpt (19:34 to 20:31) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text.