Great post, Louis, it certainly can seem like 'magic' when one has developed the (often painful) experience over innumerable interactions with tools like Claude Code that can be boiled down to simple, effective prompts. Agent Skills.md are one of the main mediums I use for making tacit knowledge explicit, for codifying procedural knowledge, which is the crucial prerequisite to automation. I highly encourage others to read more about the Skills framework, which is a fascinating glimpse of the future of human-language programming: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview As Anthropic's engineers noted, we can start to think of the LLM as the processor, agents as the operating system, and skills as applications or software. Who could be better suited to this new, human-language-based paradigm of computing than humanities scholars, the masters of language?
I thought about going into all the defaults for agents. That should be a future post. I have a very very comprehensive md file to explain Chicago style!
Great post, Louis, it certainly can seem like 'magic' when one has developed the (often painful) experience over innumerable interactions with tools like Claude Code that can be boiled down to simple, effective prompts. Agent Skills.md are one of the main mediums I use for making tacit knowledge explicit, for codifying procedural knowledge, which is the crucial prerequisite to automation. I highly encourage others to read more about the Skills framework, which is a fascinating glimpse of the future of human-language programming: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview As Anthropic's engineers noted, we can start to think of the LLM as the processor, agents as the operating system, and skills as applications or software. Who could be better suited to this new, human-language-based paradigm of computing than humanities scholars, the masters of language?
That's a great suggestion!
I thought about going into all the defaults for agents. That should be a future post. I have a very very comprehensive md file to explain Chicago style!