Field notes on Agent Skills, the SKILL.md format, and building with AI coding agents.https://aaria.dev/https://aaria.dev/blog/ai-cinematic-scroll-websites/https://aaria.dev/blog/ai-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.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcinematic scrollscrollytellingai coding agentshttps://aaria.dev/blog/how-to-evaluate-an-agent-skill/https://aaria.dev/blog/how-to-evaluate-an-agent-skill/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.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTagent skillstrustsecurityhttps://aaria.dev/blog/what-are-agent-skills/https://aaria.dev/blog/what-are-agent-skills/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.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTagent skillsskill.mdai coding agentshttps://aaria.dev/blog/verified-agent-skills-marketplace-evidence/https://aaria.dev/blog/verified-agent-skills-marketplace-evidence/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.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTagent skillsmarketplacetrusthttps://aaria.dev/blog/claude-agent-skills-one-month-in/https://aaria.dev/blog/claude-agent-skills-one-month-in/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.Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTclaude agent skillsskill.mdai coding agentshttps://aaria.dev/blog/what-mcp-changed-for-ai-coding-agents/https://aaria.dev/blog/what-mcp-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.Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTmodel context protocolmcpai coding agentshttps://aaria.dev/blog/ai-coding-agents-workflow/https://aaria.dev/blog/ai-coding-agents-workflow/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.Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTai coding agentsdeveloper workflowweb developmenthttps://aaria.dev/blog/cinematic-website-performance/https://aaria.dev/blog/cinematic-website-performance/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.Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMTperformancecore web vitalsweb designhttps://aaria.dev/blog/scrollytelling-web-design/https://aaria.dev/blog/scrollytelling-web-design/Good scrollytelling web design treats scroll as a sequence of meaningful states on a readable static page, with predictable behavior and reduced-motion fallbacks.Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTscrollytellingweb designaccessibilityhttps://aaria.dev/blog/ai-pair-programming-for-web-development/https://aaria.dev/blog/ai-pair-programming-for-web-development/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.Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTai pair programmingweb developmentdeveloper productivity