← All IntelClip / AI AgentsDon't install someone else's skills
From I made Claude smarter by writing it a letter · ≈50:18
Closes the loop on the video's premise: useful skills and agents files are derived from your own observed failure modes, so adopting them wholesale skips the understanding that makes them work.
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- Closes the loop on the video's premise: useful skills and agents files are derived from your own observed failure modes, so adopting them wholesale skips the understanding that makes them work.
Clip transcript
turned Mac OS into complete slop. You might have noticed one thing I didn't do at any point in this video. I never told you to go to this repo and copy and install all of my skills. That's cuz I don't think that's a good idea. Similar to how I don't think you should just go install all of the JavaScript packages somebody uses, you shouldn't just go install all of the skills someone uses. This is a thing that you should build up based on your needs and your experience communicating with your agents on your projects. And this is a great opportunity to level up your own understanding of things as well. In order to make good skills in Agent MD and Claude MD files, you need to understand how your agents work and where they fail. And hopefully this has helped you see where I find these things and you get some lessons you can apply in your own work as well. Don't blindly copy all the stuff I did here. take the opportunity to learn and better understand how your agents work in your stuff. And I have a feeling the tips here will actually end up being really helpful. This video is already longer than Codex's system prompt, so I'm going
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