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Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual

AI Engineer · Jun 29, 2026 · Engineering Insights

A skill checklist and shared rubric is needed to distinguish good agent skills from bad ones.

“Skill hell is where you have all of these skills available freely available that you can download, contribute to, you can figure out on your own, but you don't really know how the pieces all work together.”

A speaker (creator of the popular Matt PCO skills repo) argues that developers face 'skill hell'—an abundance of agent skills with no shared rubric to tell good from bad. The talk introduces a skill checklist to evaluate and improve agent skills, addressing a growing need as skills proliferate at individual and organizational levels.

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