This is a reason why when life pushed me away from product development into consulting/agency work, I hated it at first and eventually I learnt to appreciate the positive side of it.
Usually those kind of companies won't hire old employees, while at the same time will gladly pay for consulting knowledge to solve their problems.
Also while product companies tend to hire folks that the very last thing they worked on checks all bullet points on the HR job ad, agencies will gladly throw people at a problem regardless of the skills list, as long as the team learns to swimm fast enough.
Most often product development involves a lot of legacy. In consultancy you get to start from scratch at least every once in a while.
My guess is that the standardization is going to make its way into how the models are trained and Skills are eventually going to pull out ahead.
0: https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-...
The LLM instructed to run the initialization script as the first thing, before reasoning about the use request (this proved tricky to achieve). The scripts greps the content matter out of the skill files, along with the file path.
I have no clue if this outperforms an embedded index.