Agent Skills Are the New SDK (And You Should Be Building One)
The article argues that AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor are replacing the traditional SDK installation model, turning developer bandwidth from a bottleneck into a non‑issue. By packaging product knowledge into "agent skills," companies can automatically instrument code across an organization, achieving near‑full coverage without extra engineering effort. This shift enables usage‑based revenue to scale with coverage, as illustrated by Neon’s AI‑driven distribution that helped secure a $1 billion acquisition. Builders and investors are urged to treat agent skills as a core product asset and competitive moat.
How Reliability Won Is Building a Global Asset-Reliability Platform
Battery Ventures’ 2024 investment in Mobius Institute launched the Reliability Won platform, a unified condition‑monitoring and asset‑reliability service. Since then the platform has added Noria Corporation’s lubrication expertise and, most recently, Fluid Life’s oil‑analysis labs through three acquisitions. The combined offering now...
From Building MongoDB to Backing the Future of AI
Battery Ventures has announced its new XV fund, a $3.25 billion vehicle dedicated to frontier technology investing, and has appointed a former MongoDB CEO as a partner focused on AI, quantum computing, and robotics. The partner emphasizes that future AI breakthroughs...
