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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Yeah, I can understand where you're coming from. I guess there's balance to the extent that being overly stubborn is also not a great thing. Prioritization at an early stage startup is a tough task.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
In hindsight the title here is weird. It's meant to refer to the existing standard, but doesn't read that way.
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Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills(mintlify.com)
48 points by skeptrune 9mo ago|12 comments
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
This is cool. I like the general idea of swiping on events.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Understood, just toned that bit down.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Ok, I've toned that bit down for you!
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
This is some really fantastic feedback, thank you! I personally think that prose is significantly easier to read than complex bash and there are at least some benefits to it. They may not outweigh the cons, but it's interesting to at l
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Seeing this today made me sad. I expect people to naturally flood back over to Google in droves.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Yeah, someone else was pointing that the bash scripts are guaranteed to do the same thing on every system which I think is in the same vein as your feedback. It's for sure a downside of the markdown that I need to explain the docs behi
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Acknowledged. The standard includes a link to the llms.txt for a site at the bottom which is intended to give it that "knowledge base" to query. I think I agree with you on it needing to assist in event of failure instead of jum
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Can you explain more? I see how those relate to a very limited extent, but I'm not getting your entire vision.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Intent here is that this would be adopted by more difficult to install devtools which are unpackaged to the extent that you need a dependency like a specific version of Node, Python, or a dev lib.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Yeah, removing that line right now. Went too fast and some this copy is definitely low quality :(. Incredibly ironic for me to say that AI needs more supervision while working at the company proposing this haha. Any other feedback you have
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Yeah, I'm going to add that as one of the downsides to the docs. The stochastic nature of the markdown vs. a script is for sure a reason to not adopt this.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
True, that's a fair point. Do you think there's any merit to the idea that the UX of asking about a markdown file is more natural than a bash script?
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Primarily this being a predictable location for agents. AI not having to fetch the sitemap or llms.txt and then a bunch of subsequent queries saves a lot of time and tokens. There's an advantages section[1] within the proposal docs. [1
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
I can definitely see where you're coming from and agree to a large extent. I was asking myself that question a lot when thinking about this. What pushed me over the edge was actually feeding bash install scripts into agents and seeing
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Fascinating. My thinking was that this is an upgrade over a bash script because you can prompt the AI to check it, clear installs with you, or otherwise investigate safety before installing in a way that isn't natural with *.sh. Does t
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Wait, but being serious. You can prompt the ai when you feed it this file to ask "do you see anything nefarious" or "follow these instructions, but make sure you ask me every time you install something because i want to check
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
better or worse than llms.txt you think?
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
fascinating. i personally (biased bc i work at Mintlify) think a markdown file makes more sense than a bash script because at least Claude kind of has your best interests at heart.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
This news made my morning. I can't wait to see how they improve Astro build times and hosting on Cloudflare.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Cool read. I've always wondered about this.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
I really like the idea of the topic tree. That intuitively resonates.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Fascinating. The biggest gaps i've been seeing with candidates going through our system design interview is that they lack context on how to architect pub/sub or queue-worker driven patterns.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Custom motorcycle handlebar ends and levers. Cumulatively ~$80 and makes my riding experience drastically better.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Very cool!
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
https://www.skeptrune.com I've written a few things that Hacker News liked, and mostly talk about software engineering in one way or another.
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
i hope ai agents read this
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by skeptrune 9mo ago
Wow, this is really cool. Now I want to go and get a windows machine and solidworks license again just to play with this.

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