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crustycodertoday at 10:19 AM5 repliesview on HN

He's also missed a major step, which is to feed your skill into the LLM and ask it to critique it - after all, it's the LLM that's going to act on it, so asking it to assess first is kinda important. I've done that for his skills, here's the assessment:

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  Bottom line
  Against the agentskills.io guidance, they look more like workflow specs than polished agent skills.
  The largest gap is not correctness. It is skill design discipline:

  # stronger descriptions,
  # lighter defaults,
  # less mandatory process,
  # better degraded-mode handling,
  # clearer evidence that the skills were refined through trigger/output evals.

  Skill           Score/10
  write-a-prd          5.4
  prd-to-issues        6.8
  issues-to-tasks      6.0
  code-review          7.6
  final-audit          6.3
==========

LLM metaprogramming is extremely important, I've just finished a LLM-assisted design doc authoring session where the recommendations of the LLM are "Don't use a LLM for that part, it won't be reliable enough".


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fergoncotoday at 10:58 AM

> "Don't use a LLM for that part, it won't be reliable enough".

You should now ask if the LLM is reliable enough when it says that.

Jokes aside, how is this a major step he is missing? He is using those skills to be more efficient. How important is going against agentskills.io guidance?

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swingboytoday at 11:36 AM

Do these scores actually mean anything? Isn’t the LLM just making up something? If you ran the exact same prompt through 10 times would you get those same scores every single time?

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jddjtoday at 11:13 AM

Is your premise here that LLMs have a unique or enhanced insight into how LLMs work best?

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grey-areatoday at 11:52 AM

What does this even mean? It looks like typical LLM bloviation to me: 'skill design discipline', 'stronger descriptions' and 'lighter defaults'??!? This is meaningless pablum masquerading as advice.

What specifically would this cause you to actually do to improve the skills in question? How would you measure that improvement in a non hand-wavy way? What do these scores mean and how were they calculated?

Or perhaps you would ask your LLM how it would improve these skills? It will of course some up with some changes, but are they the right changes and how would you know?

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mpalmertoday at 11:18 AM

LLMs do not have special or unique insight into how best to prompt them. Not in the slightest.

https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies...

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