Stop Outsourcing Your Thinking to Internet Strangers

please stop outsourcing your thinking to strangers on the internet downloading skills from random sources and hoping your AI output gets better is the same energy as copy pasting prompts without reading them... you get garbage results, you don't understand why, you blame the tool the problem with this approach is very simple: > someone builds a skill based on THEIR workflow > THEIR writing style > THEIR specific use case > you install it and expect it to just work for YOUR situation that's not how any of this works and it gets worse... thousands of malicious skills are live on github: prompt injections, credential theft, reverse shells hidden in skills that look completely legit you're literally giving random code full access to your machine without reading it the fix exists tho: Anthropic released a full 32-page guide on building skills... they even have a skill-creator skill that drafts your first one for you a skill is just a folder with a system prompt, plain english instructions and no coding required take 30 minutes to understand: - what the main prompt is doing - what the referenced files contain - why certain instructions are structured a specific way when you understand the engineering behind a skill you get dramatically better results because you can tune it to YOUR context and you stop being a target for injections you can't even see build your own & read what you download