Stacking Skills: When Two Specialists Beat One Generalist

You ask Cowork for a competitive landscape: researched, sourced, and handed back as a clean document you can forward. It works for a while.

Then it returns one of two disappointments. Either the research is sharp but the document is a wall of bullets with no structure, or it's a beautifully laid-out page resting on three shallow paragraphs it never bothered to verify. Never both done well.

You assume Cowork just isn't good at "research it and format it nicely."

It's good at both. You asked one generalist to do two specialists' jobs in a single pass, and it split the difference.

#Two specialists, one handoff

Skills are composable, and Cowork's own documentation says so plainly: it "automatically identifies which skills are needed and coordinates their use." You don't stack them by hand. When a request straddles two specialties, Cowork can load both skills and let them work in sequence.