Add "How do Agent Skills work?" section to home.mdx landing page

Adapted from the "How skills work" section of `what-are-skills.mdx`,
with the heading reworded as a question to match the sibling sections,
and the closing sentence rewritten to emphasize the payoff of
progressive disclosure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Jonathan Hefner
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co-authored by Claude Opus 4.7
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- **Repeatable workflows**: Turn multi-step tasks into consistent, auditable procedures.
- **Cross-product reuse**: Build a skill once and use it across any skills-compatible agent.
## How do Agent Skills work?
Agents load skills through **progressive disclosure**, in three stages:
1. **Discovery**: At startup, agents load only the name and description of each available skill, just enough to know when it might be relevant.
2. **Activation**: When a task matches a skill's description, the agent reads the full `SKILL.md` instructions into context.
3. **Execution**: The agent follows the instructions, optionally executing bundled code or loading referenced files as needed.
Full instructions load only when a task calls for them, so agents can keep many skills on hand with only a small context footprint.
## Adoption
Agent Skills are supported by leading AI development tools.