AI Skill Daily
48 articles in series
Skills worth understanding, one at a time. Daily picks from the catalog.
Error Tracking Is Backwards. The Sentry CLI Skill Fixes the Order.
The Sentry CLI skill lets your agent create releases, tag deployments, and query issues — turning error tracking from something you do after things break into part of shipping.
200 SEO Checks in One Prompt. The Interesting Part Isn't the Automation.
The most-installed marketing skill on the platform does a full SEO audit in a single prompt. The surprising insight isn't the speed — it's that 200 checks were codifiable at all.
shadcn/ui Was Always Going to Have a Skill. Here's Why.
The shadcn/ui Expert skill formalises what the library's design always implied — copy-paste components, no package lock-in, composable primitives are architecture for agent operation.
Most Supabase Bugs Aren't Supabase Bugs
supabase-postgres-best-practices encodes the query patterns the Supabase team sees go wrong in production — N+1s, missing indexes, unnecessary realtime. The library is fine. The patterns aren't.
TDD Has Been Declared Dead Every Year Since 2005. It Keeps Coming Back.
The discipline of writing the test first keeps reasserting itself because it enforces something most developers skip: defining the contract before writing the code.
The TypeScript Gap Isn't About Syntax. It's About the 90% of the Type System Nobody Uses.
The Advanced TypeScript Types skill from wshobson/agents injects knowledge that doesn't come up in tutorials but routinely comes up in production code — conditional types, mapped types, infer.
A Style Guide Gets Read Once. A Skill Runs on Every Edit.
web-design-guidelines from vercel-labs ships 100 UI rules as agent instructions. The difference between a style guide and a skill is when the knowledge gets applied.
When an Audit Costs Nothing to Run, You Start Running It Differently
The website audit skill compresses a consultant's checklist into a prompt. The interesting question isn't whether it replaces the consultant — it's what changes when the audit is free.
Brainstorming Is Not a Warm-Up. It's the Work.
The brainstorming skill from obra/superpowers enforces a hard gate before any code gets written — and that constraint turns out to be the most productive thing you can add to your workflow.
Executing Plans Is About When to Stop Thinking
The executing-plans skill from obra/superpowers draws a sharp line between the planning session and the implementation session — and holding that line turns out to be harder than it sounds.
The Branch That Never Lands: Why Finishing Is a Skill You Have to Learn Separately
The gap between 'implementation complete' and 'work integrated' is where branches go to die — and most engineers never develop a consistent protocol for crossing it.
The Git Feature I Ignored for Years Is Now How I Think in Parallel
using-git-worktrees isn't a workflow convenience — it's the physical infrastructure that makes running multiple agents simultaneously coherent rather than chaotic.