6 posts tagged #skills.
The loop engineering parts list from June 2026, classified by one question: five blocks are context moves, one is a schedule, and the genre's signature failure is fixed by a seventh block the list never counted.
Your session transcripts hold every decision you've made with an agent, and the only free way to search them counts mentions instead of truth. Rank the survivors by date and the reversed decision stops winning.
Progressive disclosure keeps a skill library's index cost linear. The number of skill pairs an agent can confuse grows with the square of the library size - and nothing about a growing index tells you that's happening.
You don't author a skill from a blank page. You commission a subagent to research the reconciliation once - across a fifteen-service fleet, that one commission is worth 56,500 tokens saved.
Rounding decided across four files costs 5,500 tokens to trace, every time anyone asks. One deep module cuts that to 700 - and pays for itself by the fourth ask.
A plan built from a vague prompt is a guess in a nicer font. ClarEval shows what skipping the interview costs: about 11 build attempts before one passes, versus about 1 if you ask first.