Agents Without Code: How Skills, YAML, and Filesystems Replaced Python
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 3:45pm-4:05pm
- Track/room: Harness Engineering · Main Stage
- Speaker(s): Philipp Schmid
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
Six months ago, building an agent meant writing a Python class with a while loop, tool definitions
in dicts, manual state management or writing custom python functions. Today, you define an agent in
a YAML file, drop a SKILL.md into a folder, and deploy. This talk traces the arc from "Agent in
Python" to "Agent as filesystem". You'll learn the same agent built three ways: the hard way (Jan
2025), the simple way (Oct 2025), and the zero-code way (today).
Related YouTube Video
Building Conversational Agents — Thor Schaeff and Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
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