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Anthropic’s Official Skill Creator: How to Test, Measure, and Refine Skills
Most agent skills are built on vibes. You write a SKILL.md, try a few prompts, eyeball the output, and call it done. If something breaks later — after a model update, after a team member installs three more skills,…
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OpenClaw vs. Claude Code vs. Codex: Understanding Skill Distribution Across AI Coding Agents
Three AI coding agents now dominate the skill ecosystem: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and OpenClaw. All three use SKILL.md files. All three can run scripts, read references, and activate skills based on natural language…
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Build a Skill That Writes SEO-Optimized Blog Posts Automatically
You have an agent that can write. You have a blog that needs content. The missing piece is a skill that bridges the gap — one that encodes your SEO standards, keyword patterns, and content structure so the agent…
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Runbook Skills: Turn Your Incident Response Into Reusable Agent Playbooks
At 3 AM, your phone buzzes. Something is wrong with production. You pull up a terminal, try to remember which logs to check first, and start the familiar ritual of poking at symptoms until a pattern emerges. Now imagine…
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Skill Spotlight: The Frontend Design Skill That Makes Beautiful UIs Automatic
Most developers have the same experience with AI-generated interfaces: the functionality works, but the design looks like it was assembled from a Bootstrap tutorial circa 2018. Generic blue buttons. Twelve-pixel padding…
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The Gotchas Section: The Single Most Valuable Part of Any Skill
Anthropic engineer Thariq called it the “highest-signal content” in any skill. After reviewing hundreds of SKILL.md files submitted to AgentSkillExchange , we agree—but we’d go further. The gotchas section is the single…
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The Agent Skills Ecosystem Is Exploding — March 2026 Roundup
Twelve months ago, agent skills didn’t exist as a category. Six months ago, they were a Claude Code-specific feature that most developers hadn’t heard of. Today, the anthropics/skills repository has over 87,000 GitHub…
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MCP vs. Agent Skills: What’s the Difference and When to Use Each
If you keep seeing MCP and agent skills used like they mean the same thing, here’s the short answer: they solve different problems . MCP connects an AI client to tools, data sources, and external systems. Agent skills…
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How to Build a Code Review Skill That Catches What Linters Miss
Linters catch syntax errors. Formatters fix indentation. Type checkers enforce contracts. None of them know that your team stopped using moment.js six months ago, or that direct database queries in controller files…
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Library & API Reference Skills: Teaching AI to Use Your Stack Correctly
Every LLM has a knowledge cutoff. Claude’s training data doesn’t include your company’s internal SDK. It doesn’t know about the breaking changes in that library’s v4 release from last month. And it definitely doesn’t…