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Comment #48898068
I would say you're right in that with succinctness comes constraint. And the constraint is really the point, not the brevity. It's small because it can't do arbitrary things, which…
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Comment #48895744
It makes sense. I think my response skewed things a bit. The worker can not run wild for exactly the reasons you state. Constraints of the language and the workflow are easy for a …
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Comment #48894718
yea, I let it get out of control. A new leaner readme is on its way thanks in big part to christoff12.
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Comment #48892673
Oh wow. Talking about going above and beyond! Thanks for this. I'll use it as a template for sure. You might have guessed, first time building in public per se. Everything else I d…
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Comment #48886906
What's the difference? if you're the one writing the Python and approving each script, probably little. The difference shows up when the agent writes it unattended, over and over. …
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Comment #48886825
Honestly, not far from where I started. The origin of this was "what would a Makefile look like if it built markdown skills?" You'll notice the syntax is very much makefile like. "…
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Comment #48884439
That's a fair comment. I sorta feel you're describing my thesis, "shrink the stochastic, grow the deterministic" is the point. Where we differ, maybe, is what the deterministic par…
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Comment #48884262
I really appreciate the comments and the encouragement. "How this better than just using any other script language?" I wanted to make the language something built for a machine to …
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Comment #48883881
Is what you are seeing is the topics sidebar overlapping the text?
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Comment #48883181
Thanks. I'm guessing since the docs are mintlify hosted, the CDN assets might be being blocked. I'll look and see if adding a domain sidesteps it.
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Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration
Hi HN — I'm Scott. Skillscript is a small language I built to write what I want my local agent to actually do, in a form I can read and version, instead of hoping the model gets it…
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Comment #48875423
I think part of the point here is that agents need to be managed. People need to learn how to manage them and be given the tools to do so. Those tools and knowledge should not come…
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