Beyond Capability Invocation: Why AI Systems Need Architectural Governance

While AI agent skills excel at automating repeatable tasks through semantic matching of task intent to capability packages, Attractor Guided Engineering (AGE) addresses a fundamentally different challenge: maintaining system-level control and preventing repository drift during long-term AI-driven evolution. The article argues that AGE cannot be reduced to a skill because doing so would collapse crucial convergence mechanisms into one-shot invocations, ultimately failing to preserve domain structure as codebases evolve under continuous perturbation.