Stop Building Over-Engineered AI Agents: How I Built a BigQuery Analyst with Just a Markdown File.
Last Updated on February 9, 2026 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Pritha Saha
Originally published on Towards AI.
Stop coding “Agents.” Start teaching “Skills.” A guide to the new decoupled architecture of AI.
Last year, in August I wrote an article on creating a text to SQL agent using Langchain.
This article discusses the author’s transition from creating complex AI agents to utilizing simpler, markdown-based skills that delineate the logic and context needed for effective AI functioning, emphasizing a decoupled architecture that enhances ease of implementation and adaptability in data analysis tasks.
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