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Curated Skills: reusable methods for your AI

Hi everyone,

If you use AI to develop an argument, examine a news story, or work on a project, giving it a clear method can help you get a more useful result.

I’ve put together Curated Skills, a growing collection of agent skills I’ve selected, adapted, and maintained. It now has a website where you can explore what each skill does, see examples, and find installation instructions.

The collection currently includes:

  • Minto: Make the main point clear and build a logical argument around it—useful for proposals, emails, and substantive drafts.

  • Xray: Examine public news through evidence, incentives, and competing explanations. Who benefits, and what else might explain the story?

  • agents-md-author: Create or tidy up the standing instructions your AI agent follows in a project.

  • GitHub Pages Guide: Turn repository content into an educational website that helps visitors understand its value and get started.

Each guide explains when the skill helps, when to skip it, and how to invoke it with examples you can adapt. You can use individual skills; there’s no need to install the whole collection.

The skills are MIT-licensed and written for portability across applications that support agent skills. The guides include attribution for the ideas and work they build on.

Explore Curated Skills

Start with one task you’re already working on and see whether a skill helps. I’d welcome feedback on what’s useful and what could be clearer.

Yusuf