{"slug": "skills-that-load-only-when-you-need-them-v1-14-0-to-v1-14-1", "title": "Skills that load only when you need them (v1.14.0 to v1.14.1)", "summary": "OpenAI released v1.14.0-v1.14.1 of its agent runtime, introducing on-demand skill loading that defers skill body loading until first invocation, replacing the old system-prompt bundling. The update adds a pattern-based skills allowlist, removes the skill_def_scopes field, and injects ephemeral skill notes for whitelisted agents to reduce overhead.", "body_md": "RFC BA lands on-demand skills. Skill bodies stop bundling into the system prompt at boot; the runtime auto-wires a new Skill tool with list + invoke ops that loads bodies on the first invoke. The agent's skills: field becomes a pattern allowlist (globs like doc/* or writing/*). Empty means allow-all with the Skill tool auto-added; -* means deny-all. Skills are now named with /-grouped segments so a whole domain grants in one line. Breaking: skill_def_scopes is removed; authoring is gated by skills: itself. The skills: allowlist is EXCLUDED from content_sha256 because it's authority-only, not identity-changing. Ephemeral per-run \"skills available\" note injected on whitelisted agents so the model gets a running-start view without paying the full-body cost. v1.14.1 groups bundled document-agent skills under doc/*, collapses doc-manager's allowlist to skills: [doc/*], and switches standalone document-agent + chat bundles to local-first routing (ollama-local → deepseek → anthropic, autocompact 80→60). Adapters stay 1.13.0 (skills: field is opaque string[] on the wire).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skills-that-load-only-when-you-need-them-v1-14-0-to-v1-14-1", "canonical_source": "https://loomcycle.dev/blog/skills-that-load-only-when-you-need-them.html", "published_at": "2026-07-05 12:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-08 08:41:25.980392+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "machine-learning"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "RFC BA"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skills-that-load-only-when-you-need-them-v1-14-0-to-v1-14-1", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skills-that-load-only-when-you-need-them-v1-14-0-to-v1-14-1.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skills-that-load-only-when-you-need-them-v1-14-0-to-v1-14-1.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/skills-that-load-only-when-you-need-them-v1-14-0-to-v1-14-1.jsonld"}}