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Re: Agent Skills

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So you spent a few thousand and now you are the next Ada Lovelace?

No, I spent a thousand and now my profit margins are higher.

Remind me again how does that compare to landing someone on the moon ? Which is what you were implying earlier?

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Snake oil. Good to read for sure. Seems all plausible too. But snake oil nevertheless. Here's why: The slot machine can drop any hard requirement that you specifically in your AGENTS.md, memory.md or your dozens of skill markdowns. Pretty much guaranteed. These harnesses approaches pretend as if LLMs are strict and perfect rule followers and the only problem is not being able to specify enough rules clearly enough. T…

Agree. Human review and iteration. Hooks to gate certain decisions you dont want to happen again, like functional scars.

Re: Agent Skills

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> LLMs aren't perfect rule following machines is the fundamental problem here I kind of get what you're saying, but let us not pretend that SW engineers are perfect rule followers either. Having a framework to work within, whether you are an LLM or a human, can be helpful.

If someone regularly ignored critical instructions even though they were written down and had been told to follow them, that person would be fired.

People are excused all the time for things because they are elevated in other areas. It's about their value as a whole and that's where we are with LLMs. They aren't perfect but they do plenty we can't which means they are worth using.

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No, I spent a thousand and now my profit margins are higher.

Remind me again how does that compare to landing someone on the moon ? Which is what you were implying earlier?

I have never in my life implied anything I've done compares to landing someone on the moon.

You're struggling with basic reading comprehension if you think so.

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> The slot machine can drop any hard requirement that you specifically in your AGENTS.md, memory.md or your dozens of skill markdowns. Pretty much guaranteed. Indeed. That said, I’ve had some success with agent skills, but I use them to make the LLM aware of things it can do using specific external tools. I think it is a really bad idea to use this mechanism to enforce safety rules. We need good sandboxing for this,…

Do you have any information on skills you've found useful here?

Not really, unfortunately. I took some inspiration from existing skills, mostly in the official GitHub repo https://github.com/agentskills/ . But mostly I had to come up with them myself. I try to use Claude to help but it was not that useful.

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Remind me again how does that compare to landing someone on the moon ? Which is what you were implying earlier?

I have never in my life implied anything I've done compares to landing someone on the moon. You're struggling with basic reading comprehension if you think so.

Cute ;) why don't ypu re-read again what you wrote in response to my comment ? But dont ask the LLM to summarise it for you.

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I have never in my life implied anything I've done compares to landing someone on the moon. You're struggling with basic reading comprehension if you think so.

Cute ;) why don't ypu re-read again what you wrote in response to my comment ? But dont ask the LLM to summarise it for you.

I know exactly what I wrote. Clearly you didn't understand it. Maybe you ought to get an LLM to explain it to you.

Re: Agent Skills

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post #238

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Cute ;) why don't ypu re-read again what you wrote in response to my comment ? But dont ask the LLM to summarise it for you.

I know exactly what I wrote. Clearly you didn't understand it. Maybe you ought to get an LLM to explain it to you.

Mate you literally said you are applying the lessons from Apollo programme to do...whatever it is you are doing.
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