Definition
Plain language
Knowing how to do something step by step, as opposed to knowing facts about it.
As stated in the literature
A class of knowledge encoded as reusable workflows or operating procedures; in Life-Harness, retrieved as notes distilled from training trajectories.
Why it matters: Many agent tasks are skill-shaped rather than fact-shaped, and storing them as reusable procedures is what makes Life-Harness-style systems work.
For example, knowing the exact sequence of steps to reset a router is procedural, while knowing what a router is is factual.
Heard on the show
“AWM is a procedural skill library that only learns from successful trajectories.”Episode 064 — When Agent Memory Stops Being a Database and Starts Being a Skill