How I use skills:

- Create a skill to perform some common task

- Watch the agent use it

- Wait until the agent makes a mistake

- Ask it to update the skill to warn it against making that mistake again

I think that, using that iterative process, I end up with something better than just asking it to perform the task plainly

One observation: ask an LLM to write a skill, it tends to make them overly verbose and prescriptive. Often, something briefer and human-written actually works better

Another: I generally let the LLM propose edits to the skill, but I review them carefully and often modify them, because I find it has a tendency to solve the current problem at the price of worsening the solution to a previous one

> - Ask it to update the skill to warn it against making that mistake again

Yep! I have a canned prompt that basically boils down to "scroll up, read through and give me the top `n` things that were difficult..." and more often than not a small skill or change to `agents.md` comes out of that.