• Matt defines skills as folders of Markdown files that agents or users can invoke to change an agent's behavior. 30:33
  • He saw other ecosystems distribute similar behavior through skill sets, plugins, or command-style workflows. 30:58
  • His own skills repo gained more stars than anything else he had made before he put much promotion behind it. 30:58
  • A talk titled "Software Fundamentals Still Matter" reached about 1.2 million views, and the skills repo reached about 230,000 stars. 31:25
  • He describes the skills as his own workflow packaged in the simplest form people can inspect and adapt. 32:15
  • Grill Me asks the agent to interview the user relentlessly before implementation. 34:21
  • The host's Grill Me example forced decisions about authentication shape, safety, and rate limiting for a simple subscriber-check API. 33:09
  • Matt sees Grill Me as reproducing the feel of a senior engineer asking sharp questions before the work starts. 34:50
  • The skill improves output by improving the quality of the conversation between human and agent. 35:39
  • Grill Me keeps key decisions with the human while still surfacing details the human may have missed. 36:08
  • Matt warns that agents cannot read a developer's values, so the workflow must communicate what is in scope, out of scope, and important. 37:11