Skill or no skill · Clief Notes

Skill or no skill

My understanding is NO to skills unless needed.

But the problem being things move quick enough where things get deprecated, replaced, etc

There was a recent security alert by Microsoft and browser plugins. where it they had great reviews, 10's or 1000's of installs and success stories. However it was put out by a hacker group. Inside the plugin it pointed to a URL. Nothing malicious, fully reviewed, passed all kinds of security scans and all those users that tested it. But that was the trap. months later they updated, changed the URL and it pointed to malicious data. BUT, not everybody was impacted It was random so it still passed security audits. To this day there is reportedly unknown numbers in the Google Chrome login store. So side note from a security professional. avoid plugins if you can. If you don't use them remove them. Clean up and protect yourself. And always take the stand of TRUS NO ONE! even friends and family. That's where things slip in. Ether by mistake or spoofing. Keep safe!

But, I digress. back to where I was going with this.

My thugs are to deconstruct a skill and crate a workspace out of it instead. Although not always as easy to do.

@Jake Van Clief

and other admins and community members. Do you like skills? do you deconstruct and if so how?

Ive not spent a lot of time on skills. it's on my bucket list to master either way just to understand them. Bt I see where people can get in a trap of installing all these great skills and now every time Claude loads there is 1/2 your context window chewed up my it all and most are not needed. OR maybe a skill can be loaded in a workspace, sub-workspace so it only loads when needed?

I was thinking, create an ICM workspace that deconstructs a skill and breaks it down, interviews me on the pieces to it and asks me to tell it what I want to keep, and discard and change.

I'm currently watching a video by Matt Pocock on a skill he created called /learn. It sounds cool but having a workspace I can control, the data it stores keeps in the way I want it to, perhaps wired into a 2nd brain would be much cooler.

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Skill or no skill