top | item 46415134 (no title) objcts | 2 months ago how is a skill considered auditable or controllable? discuss order hn newest jinfeng79|2 months ago 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. jinfeng79|2 months ago 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.
jinfeng79|2 months ago 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.
jinfeng79|2 months ago 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.
jinfeng79|2 months ago
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.
jinfeng79|2 months ago
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.