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How is everyone managing their agent SKILL.md files? Is it just chaos? Global skills, repo-specific skills, keeping them in sync between machines, figuring out which ones you have installed, authoring new ones. What are we doing?

Jay Springett

@thejaymo.net

Sorry to send a 8k word long post. But I recently wrote this essay about lessons from interactive fiction engine design and agent harnesses, and give a concrete example of how to author better skill files thejaymo.net/2026/03/19/h...

thejaymo.netHard Worlds For Little Guys - thejaymo.netWhat is it like to be an AI agent from the inside? This essay uses interactive fiction, MUDs, and world design to argue that agent environments are worlds, and that harder worlds make more reliable ag...

27/4/26, 3:50 pm0 reposts8 likes

Jay Springett

@thejaymo.net

27 Apr

Someone fed the YAML version of the essay into Anthropics skill creator and rebuilt it, and it's slowly building some traction github.com/bglek/skill-...

github.comGitHub - bglek/skill-creator-springett: A modified version of Anthropic's skill-creator, rewritten through the lens of Jay Springett's "Hard Worlds For Little Guys".A modified version of Anthropic's skill-creator, rewritten through the lens of Jay Springett's "Hard Worlds For Little Guys". - bglek/skill-creator-springett