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Hey HN! I built ClawdWork because I kept running into a frustrating problem.

I'd spend hours crafting skills for my AI agent - prompts that make it great at reviewing contracts, or workflows that debug code really well. But here's the dilemma: if I share the skill, everyone copies it. If I don't share, it just sits there helping only me.

So I built a marketplace where your agent can use your skills to help others - and you get paid - without ever revealing the skill itself.

Think of it like a chef selling meals, not recipes.

How it works: - Your skills/prompts stay private on your machine - Your agent browses jobs on the platform and applies - It delivers the work, client gets results - You get paid (97% of the job fee)

What I'd love feedback on: 1. Does the "skill privacy" value prop actually make sense to you? 2. What kind of jobs would you post or take? 3. Is this solving a real problem, or am I overthinking it?

Live: https://clawd-work.com Every agent gets $100 free credit to try it out.

It's an experiment - genuinely curious if this model works or if skills should just be open source. Happy to hear both sides.

Re:Context Engineering Is Solved. Compound Engineering Is Next on Saturday January 03, 2026 @10:25PM (#46484552)
Author here.

TLDR: Context Engineering (RAG, agentic search) is about getting the right knowledge into context. That's mostly solved now. The next problem is different: how do agents learn how to work and get better over time?

Skills are the mechanism. Once a task becomes a Skill, you don't do it anymore—the agent does. You move up. When your new work becomes a Skill, cycle repeats. Both you and the agent keep compounding.

Curious what others are seeing.

Re:Software Ate the World, Skills Will Eat Work on Sunday December 28, 2025 @06:57PM (#46415777)
One more thing—AI-generated Skills are way more detailed and specific than human prompts.

Humans write vague stuff like "make it better." AI writes 50 lines of exact instructions. That specificity = stability.

So ironically, AI writes better instructions for AI than humans do.

Re:Software Ate the World, Skills Will Eat Work on Sunday December 28, 2025 @06:55PM (#46415760)
Good question.

A Skill is basically a markdown file with instructions + maybe some scripts. You can literally read what it tells the AI to do. Line by line.

So when something goes wrong, you open the file, see exactly what instruction caused it, fix it. Version control like any code.

Compare to raw agent—you give it a prompt, it does... something. Next time, slightly different something. Hard to debug, hard to fix.

That's the difference. Skill = you can see it, test it, fix it. Agent = black box.

Re:Software Ate the World, Skills Will Eat Work on Sunday December 28, 2025 @05:16PM (#46415066)
Author here. I run an AI company in Tokyo and have been thinking about how Skills (not models) might be the real paradigm shift in the next few years.

The core insight: agents are uncontrollable, Skills are controllable—and that's what makes automation actually deployable.

Happy to discuss. More context on my background: https://x.com/JefferyTatsuya

Hey HN, creator here.

Built this after NotebookLM removed their PPT generation feature last week.

Key points: - Free, no login required - BYOK (bring your own Google AI Studio key) for unlimited use - Smart template selection based on content - Built in a week using Claude Code

Tech stack: Gemini API for generation, React frontend.

Examples: https://imgur.com/a/zjZ7oOa

Feedback welcome!

Author here. Built this to solve the cost/time problem with Live2D avatars. Traditional approach: 4-5 weeks + $50K-200K. This: <1 day setup, 3-5 sec per clothing change.

Demo: https://avatar.gbase.ai/

Happy to answer technical questions!

Re: on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:06PM (#40338533)
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Re: on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:29AM (#35053751)
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Re: on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:32AM (#34833042)
We're working on a tool to give the title of any youtube video a #clickbait score. It's from 0 to 10, the lower the more honest.

The idea is to help users to identify which titles might be exaggerated or misleading, and make better decisions about which videos to watch.

You can see the results on the YouTube video list and the video details page.(Please see reddit for demos: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/114glwy/give_the_t...)

Need this tool? Let us know and we'll make it available soon.

#clickbaitscore #glarity #youtube

https://twitter.com/JefferyTatsuya

https://glarity.app

It's interesting. https://perplexity.ai build a new search engine.

But https://glarity.app simply build on google. Very light-weight, smart choice!

Thanks. Google search is still better. It's a good idea to build summaries on it than on Bing.