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Skills: Proprietary Library Coding
Learn how to make coding agents use proprietary libraries with "Skills." This talk covers structuring and creating these lazy-loaded instructions, with a live demo of building an AI chat app.
Making coding agents use proprietary/internal libraries correctly has been an ongoing frustration of mine. Zero examples in the LLM’s training set, no online docs, and internal docs are sparse and lag behind. Not a great environment for a coding coding. Modern “ripgrep” agents work occasionally (when they trace into the source), but are still pretty hit’n’miss.
Two weeks ago I found a solution: Skills. Skills are, in a nutshell, lazy-loaded instructions for your coding agent. I’ve successfully used them to create guides on how to use proprietary libraries and they have worked pretty well for me so far.
In my talk I will show you how I structure them and how I think through their creation. If the WiFi is stable, I will also show you an example where I will ask a coding agent to one-shot a small AI chat app using a custom agent SDK that I am building.