Don't Prompt Your Agents. Equip Them: Skillware as a Modular Standard for Sovereign, Auditable, and Deterministic Capability Execution for Logical Systems

arXiv:2611.07652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current autonomous logical systems rely on a fragile assumption: that language models should dynamically write code, guess API payloads, and memorize operational constraints through prompt engineering. In practice, this burns massive context windows, inflates API bills, and produces brittle agents that fail unpredictably in production. In this work, we present Skillware, an open architectural framework and capability registry that formally separates what an agent wants to do from how that task is executed. Instead of prompting models with loose text instructions or markdown files baptized as 'skills', Skillware equips them with modular, versioned software capability bundles.