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Notes on skills as infrastructure

Thoughts on what it takes for an AI agent skill to survive contact with more than one tool, more than one teammate, and more than one month.

I told ChatGPT I like short answers. Claude never got the memo.

Every AI you use is quietly building its own private idea of who you are. Here's what changed once your preferences could follow you between them.

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We've been writing skills for centuries. We called them books.

You don't need to write a skill from scratch. A recipe, a runbook, a style guide already is one — here's what changed once Skilnu could read them for me.

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One skill, every agent

You didn't standardize on one AI agent, and you're not going to. Here's why the skill shouldn't be locked to whichever one you happened to write it in.

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Your AI skills need version control

A prompt pasted into three projects is three prompts now. What package managers solved for code, skills still need solved for instructions.

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