Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? by cainxinth on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:01PM (#49599823)

I find the whole Skills.md idea a little silly. We have a technology that struggles to stay within rails due to its inherent makeup. And you think you can fix that by just telling it to?

It makes as much sense as the so-called “humanizer” tools that purport to make LLMs stop using their well-known verbal tells.

All you are doing is saying: “Hey you know that thing you can’t stop doing? Can you stop doing that?” The machine will say “Absolutely!” but eventually start doing it again.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? by appplication on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:03PM (#49599837)

You’re not wrong, but I don’t see a lot of alternatives. So we just don’t try to fix it? At least skills give us a landing pad for “here’s how to attempt to do things consistently in a way I generally approve of”

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