Agentic Coding 5 / 6

Skills

Skills are reusable instruction packs for repeatable workflows.

  • They can be just markdown files (so simple and elegant!)
    • also can contain more (scripts)

  • put in .agents/skills

  • Why: less repetitive prompting and more consistent outputs.
  • Where useful: issue writing, deploy flows, compliance checks.
  • Rule: use skills whenever a workflow repeats.

people make skills you can install

  • try some!

Example skills

  1. Issue Story Writer: convert rough requests into clear GitHub issues.
  2. Test + Fix Loop: run tests, diagnose failures, patch code, rerun tests.
  3. Release Operator: create release branch, run checks, deploy, verify, and summarize rollback steps.