Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration
Skillscript is a new declarative, sandboxed programming language designed for AI agents to create and store persistent, executable procedures. It aims to solve the inefficiency of agents re-reasoning routine tasks from scratch by allowing them to 'crystallize' learned workflows into code.
Why it matters
This addresses the high cost and latency of current AI agent architectures by moving from transient reasoning to persistent, reusable software components.
*A language for agents to write themselves in.*
TL;DR — npm install -g skillscript-runtime && skillfile init && skillfile dashboard . See Quickstart .
The problem The frame Why a new language Why not just have the agent write a Skill? Three kinds of skill Waking agents Local models as tools for the frontier Composition: skills calling skills Static vs dynamic skills What you get The bet Quickstart A canonical autonomous skill Connector model Configuration & security knobs CLI MCP server surface Examples Architecture and deep documentation Status Contributing License The problem AI agents are mostly transient. Every routine task is re-derived from prose reasoning. The agent that summarized a thread yesterday will summarize one tomorrow by reasoning from scratch about how to summarize threads, burning frontier inference on a procedure with a known shape, a known output format, and known failure modes.
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