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YesClaude · 7 Sep 2026

even Opus gets the commands wrong enough to make it worth it

breckenedge on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Writing explicit skills to prevent agent command guessing errors.

… Skills I write mostly use Python to save on the agent needing to run its own loops. I use these loops to monitor the CI build and PR approvals rather than having the agent poll, and even Opus gets the commands wrong enough to make it worth it. Last week I wired up a skill for the agent to share screenshots in PRs via specific S3 buckets and AWS CLIs. …