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Quick HackMD decks for light talks such as Agoric's engineering show & tell: a flashback arc (TADA, then how, then challenges), real artifacts as eye candy, and emoji tags that add up to a retro slide. In the Portland Pattern Repository form notify-me tried, with an example skeleton under the h1. The forces come from drafting the Good Fences deck: the TADA has to be on the talk's own thread; slides show challenges, they don't pose questions; designed, built in dev, and deployed must be told apart. The emoji legend is from the Jun 25 deck; meanings for 🔔 📈 🪄 are inferred, and 🧱 is new. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# mad skills
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How I like code written, reviewed, and committed — written down so the
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bots I pair with can pick it up without me repeating myself.
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These are [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io/specification). Each
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`description` front-loads the words that should trigger it — the things
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I actually say, like "retcon", "watch me", or "citation needed".
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I keep this repo checked out at `.agents/skills/` in a workspace and
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symlink `.claude/skills` and `.opencode/skills` to it, so [Claude
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Code](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills) and
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[opencode](https://opencode.ai/docs/skills/) see the same set.
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## writing code
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- [no-ambient-authority](no-ambient-authority/SKILL.md) — clocks,
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RNGs, `fetch`, and the filesystem come in as parameters.
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- [io-between-turns](io-between-turns/SKILL.md) — sync I/O is a pointy
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instrument.
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- [silent-failures-are-evil](silent-failures-are-evil/SKILL.md) — every
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failure path leaves a trace in the logs.
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- [lazy-tdd](lazy-tdd/SKILL.md) — works the first time? fine. Goofed?
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You owe a test.
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- [docs-files-api](docs-files-api/SKILL.md) — README sells and gets
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you to TADA; CONTRIBUTING has the rest; AGENTS.md links to it.
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Exported API docs over file docs. Avoid chit-chat.
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## commits and PRs
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- [disclose-gen-ai](disclose-gen-ai/SKILL.md) — `Generated-by:`
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trailers, per the ASF generative tooling guidance.
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- [retcon](retcon/SKILL.md) — regroup a PR's net diff into clean
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per-package commits; the merge result doesn't change.
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- [yarn-lock-separate-commit](yarn-lock-separate-commit/SKILL.md) —
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`yarn.lock` changes ship alone.
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## writing prose
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- [grice-maxims](grice-maxims/SKILL.md) — say what's needed and no
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more, only what you can back up, in an order easy to follow.
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- [hypertext-links](hypertext-links/SKILL.md) — link text says where
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the link goes; no bare URLs, no "click here".
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- [citation-needed](citation-needed/SKILL.md) — back a challenged claim
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with live links, quoted and dated.
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- [hackmd-deck](hackmd-deck/SKILL.md) — a light talk as a flashback:
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TADA, then how, then the challenges, tagged for an emoji retro.
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- [ibis-design](ibis-design/SKILL.md) — search a design space:
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issues, positions, and arguments.
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- [obsidian-markdown](obsidian-markdown/SKILL.md) — the workspace is
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an Obsidian vault: one line per paragraph, relative links, no file
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symlinks you expect Obsidian to show.
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## at the terminal
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- [watchme](watchme/SKILL.md) — I record the session with `script -f`;
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read the typescript instead of asking me what happened.
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- [run-confined](run-confined/SKILL.md) — run an untrusted installer in
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a throwaway systemd user unit that can't see `~/.ssh` and friends.
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- [what-was-i-doing](what-was-i-doing/SKILL.md) — where did this file
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come from? Correlate mtimes with git history across every repo.
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- [notify-me](notify-me/SKILL.md) — desktop notification at the end
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of a long turn, sticky if I'm stepping away; not every reply.
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## adding one
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Name the directory for the trigger, not the topic. Write the
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`description` for the matcher: what I'd say, what I'd be doing, and
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what it's *not* for. Cite the source; quote the key line; explain the
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rest.
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