In preparation
Learn Agent Skills will be a plain-language guide for people who use AI tools: what an agent skill is, how to write one, and how to use and share it, with worked examples to copy. And as a bonus, help creating your own agent that makes skills for you.
Tell us you want itChapters in plain words, each with an example to try.
It will explain a skill as what it is: a folder with a SKILL.md file of instructions, sometimes with scripts or examples beside it, that an AI agent opens when a task calls for it. Several AI tools read skills written in this shared format.
It will walk through one skill from a blank file: the name, the description that tells the agent when to use it, the steps, and what to leave out.
It will cover where skills live, how an agent picks one or how you call it by name, how to hand a skill to your team, and how to read someone else's before you install it.
Planned: complete skills explained line by line, with the reason for each line: a weekly report from your notes, a checklist before a release, a house style for writing.
No programming needed to start; the scripts can wait.
You paste the same instructions into an AI tool every week. A skill can hold them for you.
A house style, a review checklist, a report format: written once and shared as a folder.
Developers who want the structure explained before they add scripts and files to a skill.
Your introduction to AaSS (Agent as Software Solution): software you own, built, run and maintained by your AI agent.
You tell it what keeps coming back, and it asks until it understands.
The two of you solve it together, one step at a time, with you in charge.
Once it is solved, your agent writes down how, as a skill of its own, so the same solution is there the next time you need it.
Not yet. It is in preparation and has no opening date.
Check two things first. Is the folder where your tool looks for skills? Does the description say plainly what the skill does and when to use it? An agent reads each skill's name and description first, and opens the full instructions only when the description fits the task.
Read it first, as you would any code you install: a skill can include scripts that run on your computer. Check its license too. An open license such as Apache 2.0 allows reuse on conditions, like keeping the license and notices and marking what you changed.
We keep it to write to you once, when Learn Agent Skills opens, and for nothing else. We share it with no one.
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