I like the idea, but not sold on the skill. But did lead to me finding https://vale.sh and its various available linters. Might give that a try.
STE is part of the training set, so the skill is redundant and only pollutes your context window.
Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
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I have yet to see an "agent skill" that does not match this description.
You can memorize a book too but that doesn’t mean they’re not useful
I actually don't mean that skills are useless, I have them in my projects too. Just that any time I've seen one shared publicly, basically the introductory blurb of "what does this skill do?" would serve adequately as "the skill". Such is the nature of machines that understand natural language.
It makes it kind of funny publishing skills online because by the time somebody knows they want the skill, they already have it.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can memorize a book too but that doesn’t mean they’re not useful
I actually don't mean that skills are useless, I have them in my projects too. Just that any time I've seen one shared publicly, basically the introductory blurb of "what does this skill do?" would serve adequately as "the skill". Such is the nature of machines that understand natural language. It makes it kind of funny publishing skills online because by the time somebody knows they want the skill, they already have…
Projects like SkillOpt[1] are pretty good evidence that the ceiling for skills isn't "describe it in a sentence and let the LLM generate it". There's value in iterating on a skill and figuring out what the weak parts are. At that point, sharing the skill can indeed be useful. Just look at superpowers, GSD, etc. They're 'just' skills (and a few bash scripts), but the text in them is useful enough to share.
[1] https://microsoft.github.io/SkillOpt/docs/guideline.html
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The problem with at least ChatGPT is no matter what personality you set it still reads like a smug asshole trying to sound smart. You can just pick different flavors of smug asshole.
> The problem with at least ChatGPT is no matter what personality you set it still reads like a smug asshole trying to sound smart. Some of this may be perception rather than reality. I have never felt that ChatGPT was being smug or rude to me.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with at least ChatGPT is no matter what personality you set it still reads like a smug asshole trying to sound smart. You can just pick different flavors of smug asshole.
> The problem with at least ChatGPT is no matter what personality you set it still reads like a smug asshole trying to sound smart. Some of this may be perception rather than reality. I have never felt that ChatGPT was being smug or rude to me.
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Re: Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
#136On a related note I wrote a skill to apply the economist style guide to LLM generated writing https://github.com/TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin Tends to produce relatively well structured prose that’s easy to edit.
Just to clarify: a skill isn't the same as a plugin.
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#137Agent skills work... sometimes - depends on the agent's mood really. I tried to solve this in a rather opposite way. https://github.com/computerreinvention/trie The documentation is updated and recording the intent behind all changes is enforced by a commit-gate. At the symbol level.
I think you've linked to a private repository.
AH. https://github.com/computer-reinvention/trie
Sorry. A missing hyphen!
Re: Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
#138I took one of the examples ("Leveraging sqlpipe's robust...") and just prefixed it with this: > Rewrite this using ASD-STE100 simplified technical English: And you get a good-enough result, it seems? Maybe add another sentence or two for guidance, but what's with needing these giant skills, when ASD-STE100 was surely in the training material?
The training material is used to "develop intelligence" not as reference material.
As an analogy, students learn a bunch of things during school, become more intelligent, but do not retain explicit knowledge like all of the details on the periodic table, or all of the exact formulas for things.
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#139tried it out - wrote really basic and then also ai slop - i love the idea of creating context collisions but this particular skill needs an inverse reference that takes the model through the latent space to remove the ai slop - its got legs but I'd consider mixing it with some advertising principles or storytelling so it trains out the mic drop bs