[HN Gopher] PsiACE/Skills - A small, shared skill library
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       PsiACE/Skills - A small, shared skill library
        
       Author : recrush
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2026-02-05 18:17 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | supermdguy wrote:
       | Has anyone had success using skills like these without an agent
       | that supports them? I'm using the Zed agent, which doesn't have
       | skills support, and was thinking of just adding in a summary of
       | the skills directory and how to use it inside my AGENTS.md.
        
       | reify wrote:
       | thats all well and good, but there is a big but.
       | 
       | Can it lay bricks, plaster a wall, tile a roof and plumb in a new
       | bathroom suite.
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       | I'm not convinced, always the sceptic or is that septic.
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       | lets load the terminal and ask trusty old grep or even ripgrep.
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       | grep -i skills
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       | rg -i skills
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       | returns fuck all
        
         | rexpop wrote:
         | Yeah, and for some reason my _hardware drivers_ can 't manage a
         | team of horses!
        
       | rao-v wrote:
       | Skills aren't the right fulcrum to move LLMs on something as
       | generic as well known language best practices. Trust the model
       | owner to post-training on that.
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       | Use skills for more specific things (idiosyncratic patterns,
       | specific library docs, project specific info) that an LLM cannot
       | be expected to know already, otherwise you are just wasting
       | context.
        
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