Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
Hacker News users discuss strategies for managing 'skills files' and custom tools used by AI agents. The conversation covers the trade-offs between project-specific configurations and centralized skill repositories.
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As AI agents become more prevalent in software development, standardizing how they access and execute custom tools is becoming a key productivity challenge.
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How do you find skills, keep them organized, and make sure they actually work? Do you keep improving them over time? I believe skills will eventually be eating by model capabilities, but until then I'm just looking for a better way to manage things.
I don't use any skills, what kinds of skills are people finding most useful? For general tasks, the model seems perfectly capable of figuring out things itself, for project or environment specific tasks, I just put that information in the readme or agents.md file.
Any skills, I just add into the tool itself. I then have the py tools in their PWD, don’t bother with mcp.
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