Browse all 9 articles in this open-source series. Nine source-grounded lessons on skill distribution, invocation design, project setup, version maintenance and safe evaluation. Complete multilingual revision with retained URLs.
Featured starting point
Understand what mattpocock/skills actually distributes, why its 25 promoted skills differ from its full repository, and where the agent host still controls execution.
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01 → 09
Understand what mattpocock/skills actually distributes, why its 25 promoted skills differ from its full repository, and where the agent host still controls execution.
Set up repository conventions, choose an explicit first workflow and distinguish the pinned TDD instructions from the broader README summary.
Choose a distribution model, verify the installed revision and avoid using the repository maintainer’s destructive linking script as a general installer.
Read the collection as a graph of human entry points, reusable disciplines and project conventions rather than a hidden orchestration engine.
Trace sync-plugin-version.mjs through no-op, read-only check, guarded update and nested-field failure using six executed disposable fixtures.
Separate model context from human navigation and update work; use a controlled evaluation instead of claiming token savings from shorter instructions.
Review instruction changes as behavior changes, constrain issue-tracker actions and distinguish triage state policy from an enforced authorization system.
Compare managed distribution, editable copies and source inspection by ownership and verification needs, without inventing a universal agent-workflow winner.
Design a local read-only explorer for promoted inventory, invocation metadata and version drift; distinguish a proposed learning tool from an upstream roadmap.
