[cobolcomesback]

This is tangential to the point. It’s often great to have a simpler version of a solution, even if it eschews some features. But this isn’t that. OP claims that the prompt system is an “alternative” to skills, but it isn’t. It isn’t solving the same problem that skills solve at all. It’s like saying that a bicycle is a simpler alternative to a lawnmower because they both have wheels.

Prompts are a feature that are simpler than skills, sure, but they’re a completely different feature entirely.

[lunar_mycroft]

It's an alternative in the same way e.g. plain markdown is an alternative to HTML, even though plain markdown lacks some of the features of HTML. "X is an alternative to Y" in this sense doesn't mean "X all the same features of Y", it means "you might reasonably choose to use X instead of Y, depending on your exact usecase"