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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone measured how often agents use the skil... by verdverm on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:19PM (#49730112)
In my experience, I have not found any platform's provided skills worthy of inclusion. The number one reason is that they are often huge and cover the entire surface, or there are a bajillion of them. That these are presented as such shows they lack understanding about how to context engineer and have no respect for our token bills. Most seem Ai generated and come with the hallucinations and all that.

Have you vetted your skills for accuracy and conciseness?

Regarding harness level skill usage, that should be relatively easy for the user, as their harness should have saved the complete history of all sessions.

Re:Ask HN: Has anyone measured how often agents use the skil... by sohaibtariq on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:08PM (#49744419)
> Have you vetted your skills for accuracy and conciseness? Accuracy, yes. Conciseness could be better.

> Regarding harness-level skill usage, that should be relatively easy...

Users can analyse their own sessions, but I'm wondering if there's a feedback channel from the harness back to the skill author. Something that respects the users' privacy while still surfacing useful feedback.

Re:Ask HN: Has anyone measured how often agents use the skil... by verdverm on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:01PM (#49745062)
While I have take snippets or ideas from others skills, I don't think serious people are using other people's skills as is. Like everything in development, everyone has their own way of doing things and our agent instructions need to reflect that uniqueness.