Reading up on Agent Skills
6 deep · digging since nov 25, 25
- AddyOsmani.com - Agent Skills
AI coding agents skip senior-engineer practices by default, so Addy Osmani created Agent Skills to encode workflows like specs, tests, and reviews as non-optional agent steps.
- vercel-react-native-skills by vercel-labs/agent-skills
A collection of best practices and rules for building React Native and Expo apps, covering performance, animations, and platform optimizations.
- Dynamic context discovery
Cursor introduces dynamic context discovery, pulling only necessary data into the context window via files, reducing agent tokens by up to 46.9%.
- Slash commands - Claude Code Docs
Claude Code's slash commands and skills let users extend and control the AI's behavior via reusable instructions, dynamic context injection, and subagent execution.
- Build Software. Build Users
Quality software requires understanding users deeply, so the author proposes building agentic user simulations before coding—then iterating between user and software development.
- The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions
The evolution of LLM extensions shows that giving agents general-purpose computing abilities is more effective than specialized tool protocols like MCP.