Skill Files
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A technique where repeatable tasks and workflows are written as plain-English markdown documents that AI agents can execute — turning human judgment into reusable, ownable procedures.
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Contrasted with one-off agent interactions where context is thrown away after each session
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Contrasted with one-off agent interactions where context is thrown away after each session
"A skill file is an employee. It has one capability, one job written down clearly enough that someone new could execute it. Never do one-off work. At the end of every task, ask the agent to skillify what it did. Turn it into a markdown fi..."
Contrasted with one-off agent interactions where context is thrown away after each session
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"The point really of preserving instruction in skill files has been the biggest teaching for me — getting people to understand that you are going to chain these things together and that you can write code. At the core of this is a skill file that t..."
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"A skill file is an employee. It has one capability, one job written down clearly enough that someone new could execute it. Never do one-off work. At the end of every task, ask the agent to skillify what it did. Turn it into a markdown file you can..."
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