Honest question: has anyone found skills that fundamentally changed their workflow vs. ones that are just ‘nice to have’? Curious what the actual power-user stack looks like.

Anyways, great work on this btw, the agent-agnostic approach is the right call

I would double - do skills reliably work for you? I mean are they reliably injected when there is a need, as opposed to being actively called for (which in my opinion defeats the purpose of skills - because I can always ask the llm to read a document and then do something with the new knowledge).

I have a feeling that codex still does not do it reliably - so I still have normal README files which it loads quite intelligently and it works better than the discovery via skills.

> power-user stack

Try installing the Claude Superpowers skills - you can install them one by one from here, but it's easier to install the superpowers plugin. Try using it for a couple of sessions and see how it works for you.

For a full test, try starting with the brainstorming one which then guides you from brainstorming though planning, development etc.

I've been using it for a few days and I would say it's enhanced my workflows at least.

Define "fundamental", but I added skills to run complicated evaluation procedures for my ML research. This way I can open 5 CC instances, let them run and iterate on research without intervention. After that, I can do the final review.

One simple but useful flow is to ask cc to review a session and find miss-matches between initial skills / agent.md and current session, and propose an edit. I then skim over it and add it. It feels like it helps, but I don't have quantitative data yet.

My experience with them is limited, but I’m having issues with the LLMs ignoring the skills content. I guess it makes sense, it’s like any other piece of context.

But it’s put a damper in my dream of constraining them with well crafted skills, and producing high quality output.