My personal agentic skills sharing
Over the long weekend, I refreshed my personal collection of agentic skills, picked up from well-known sources in the community. Here’s my repo — pw-agentic-tools — in case you missed it. The main references are Matt Pocock and Pstacks. My reason for creating this repo is simple: personal use. It makes it easy to share the same setup across the different machines I work on, both personal and work.
Here are a few highlights of skills I’ve found joy to work with over this weekend:
1. /unslop
This is a super low-profile skill, but it makes reading so much easier. It’s so good at de-slopping output that it earned a seat in my AGENTS.md: (ghmd-viewer agents)
- Use sentence case formatting.
- Use unslop skills.I couldn’t search some nice example from my working history, just too many things going on. Nevertheless, Here is the example from Theo video. What it does is simple: it makes the output much cleaner and straight to the point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oXOOlqVu5M&t=2160s
2. /teach
Another gem I copied from Matt Pocock, and it’s truly amazing. As engineers, we’re constantly dropped into new repos, and the big challenge is that we “don’t know what we don’t know.” That’s where a simple prompt comes in:
/teach I want to understand the repo as a new engineer working on this project. I don't know what I don't know.Then watch what comes out. The result was so good that I linked it into the GitHub README and wired it up to a GitHub Page for onboarding:
Source: maturity-se-onboarding
Rendered output: blueorbitz.github.io/maturity-se/teach/maturity-se-onboarding
3. /prototype
Finally, my quest to pack new features into the GHMD viewer gave me the perfect chance to test this skill — and boy, it did not disappoint.
/prototype generates throwaway .html files. See and pick: docs/prototype
That’s how I managed to rebuild so many cool things in the GHMD viewer. Check out the site and its features to explore more. One of my favorites: viewing JSON or YAML with the ability to collapse and expand nodes on the fly.
4. /grill-me-auto (Bonus)
I couldn’t dig up my history of using this skill — which is a shame, because oh boy, has it saved me in grilling sessions.
Just let it run on auto, screen the outcome, then make amendments. A true lifesaver if you find yourself spending too much time grilling.