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Re: Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

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Post by esafak »

chewz wrote: post #16
testfrequency wrote: post #14

I wish I knew why my skills are never called…including my custom sub agents. Maybe it’s my own ignorance, but Claude loves to ignore its CLAIDE.MD which says it’s mandatory to leverage sub agents to delegate tasks and use skills for accomplish specific workflows. Every time I call Claude out it tells me it knows and chose to ignore it, even going as far as saying it’s not my decision. Any tips?

Create a hook that would ask Claude Code to evaluate all skills in the project and decide which are applicable to the current task at hand. It is easy and works very well. Forget Claude.md

Thanks for the tip.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks

Re: Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

amadeuswoo wrote: post #11

Honest question: has anyone found skills that fundamentally changed their workflow vs. ones that are just ‘nice to have’? Curious what the actual power-user stack looks like. Anyways, great work on this btw, the agent-agnostic approach is the right call

One simple but useful flow is to ask cc to review a session and find miss-matches between initial skills / agent.md and current session, and propose an edit. I then skim over it and add it. It feels like it helps, but I don't have quantitative data yet.

Re: Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

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Post by solumunus »

laborcontract wrote: post #8

As someone who has found skills useful, seeing skills like this[0] raises the same question about (a subset of) skills as did MCP: why not just have the agent run ‘tool --help’? https://skills.sh/ubie-inc/agent-skills/codex

Not all flags will be relevant, you can trim down and contextualise the instructions for your specific project.

Re: Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

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Post by onurkanbkrc »

Johnny_Bonk wrote: post #10

Nice work! I don't think Vercel is the first to do this, but it's a good idea and I'm glad to see more players in this space. A small UI suggestion: it would be helpful if hovering on a row showed the skill description, along with a button to copy the install command. For anyone interested, there are two other sites already doing something similar: - claudemarketplaces.com - A comprehensive directory with 1900+ marke…

We had already done it before Vercel did.

openskills.space

Re: Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

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Post by mrdonbrown »

Johnny_Bonk wrote: post #10

Nice work! I don't think Vercel is the first to do this, but it's a good idea and I'm glad to see more players in this space. A small UI suggestion: it would be helpful if hovering on a row showed the skill description, along with a button to copy the install command. For anyone interested, there are two other sites already doing something similar: - claudemarketplaces.com - A comprehensive directory with 1900+ marke…

If you want to share skills (and other tools) with teams at scale, consider sx - https://github.com/sleuth-io/sx

[yup, my project :)]

Re: Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

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Post by [deleted] »

amadeuswoo wrote: post #19
rudedogg wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience with them is limited, but I’m having issues with the LLMs ignoring the skills content. I guess it makes sense, it’s like any other piece of context. But it’s put a damper in my dream of constraining them with well crafted skills, and producing high quality output.

Yeah, the context window is a blunt instrument, everything competes for attention. I get better luck with shorter, more opinionated skills that front-load the key constraints vs. comprehensive docs that get diluted. Also explicitly invoking them (use the X skill) seems to help vs hoping they get picked up automatically

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Re: Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

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Post by flwi »

amadeuswoo wrote: post #11

Honest question: has anyone found skills that fundamentally changed their workflow vs. ones that are just ‘nice to have’? Curious what the actual power-user stack looks like. Anyways, great work on this btw, the agent-agnostic approach is the right call

Define "fundamental", but I added skills to run complicated evaluation procedures for my ML research. This way I can open 5 CC instances, let them run and iterate on research without intervention. After that, I can do the final review.

Re: Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

amadeuswoo wrote: post #19
rudedogg wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience with them is limited, but I’m having issues with the LLMs ignoring the skills content. I guess it makes sense, it’s like any other piece of context. But it’s put a damper in my dream of constraining them with well crafted skills, and producing high quality output.

Yeah, the context window is a blunt instrument, everything competes for attention. I get better luck with shorter, more opinionated skills that front-load the key constraints vs. comprehensive docs that get diluted. Also explicitly invoking them (use the X skill) seems to help vs hoping they get picked up automatically

Yes, unfortunately the most reliable way is to inject them into the user prompt at a fresh session. My guess is that biasing towards checking for the tools availability too much affects performance, which might explain why it is quite rarer that I see it just choose to use a skill without previous prompting.

Re: Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

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Post by joshribakoff »

This is a really good implementation, but I don’t lean too heavily into skills especially not other people‘s. If I’m doing design who’s to say I want instructions in there in the first place like “pick an extreme“ (instructions in the design skill featured on the homepage)
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