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Notes for builders who ship with agents.
Choose skills you can trust your agent to run, inspect the evidence behind each listing, and ship work you can defend.
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How AI Coding Agents Build Cinematic Scroll Websites
A stage-by-stage look at how an AI coding agent produces a cinematic scroll website: brief, identity frame, coherent scenes, seam-safe motion, encoding, and browser QA.
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How to Evaluate an Agent Skill Before You Install It
A practical routine to vet an AI agent skill: read the SKILL.md, audit the scripts, check declared capabilities, and trust graded runs over self-report.
What Are Agent Skills? A Plain Guide to the SKILL.md Format
An Agent Skill is a folder of instructions with SKILL.md at its root that your AI agent loads to run a proven workflow: plain files you can read, not a black box.
Evidence, Not Prompt Dumps: What a Verified Agent Skills Marketplace Must Prove
A verified agent skills marketplace treats a listing as an evidence record, not a prompt shelf. Self-report fails; graded artifacts and an honest bench win.
Claude Agent Skills, One Month In: Portable, Not Yet a Standard
One month after Claude Agent Skills shipped, the honest status: portable across Claude apps, Code, and the API, not yet a cross-agent open standard.
What the Model Context Protocol Changed for AI Coding Agents
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol connects an AI coding agent to your repo, database, and browser through one protocol. Here is what changed, and the catch.
AI Coding Agents Workflow: From Autocomplete to a Reviewable Loop
An AI coding agents workflow in 2024 runs task to plan to reviewable diff. Give bounded context, inspect the plan, verify yourself, and keep the decisions and the release.
Cinematic Website Performance: Set the Budget Before You Add Motion
Cinematic website performance starts with a budget: know your LCP element, reserve geometry against layout shift, keep a coherent static page, and add motion on purpose.
Scrollytelling Web Design: A Sequence, Not a Scroll Trick
Good scrollytelling web design treats scroll as a sequence of meaningful states on a readable static page, with predictable behavior and reduced-motion fallbacks.
AI Pair Programming for Web Development: What It Actually Changes
AI pair programming for web development in 2023 speeds up boilerplate and debugging; it does not ship a website on its own. Where it helps, where it costs you.
