In this video, I'll be telling you about Agent Skills by Addy Osmani and how this open-source workflow can help AI coding agents behave more like careful senior engineers, with a practical look at how it can fit into Verdent.

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Resources:

Verdent: https://www.verdent.ai/?id=700712

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Key Takeaways:

🚀 Agent Skills packages a structured engineering workflow for AI coding agents instead of just another prompt pack.  
🧠 The repo pushes specs, planning, incremental implementation, testing, review, and simplification before shipping.  
🛠️ It includes seven main command entry points like slash spec, slash plan, slash build, slash test, slash review, slash code simplify, and slash ship.  
🔍 Specialist personas like reviewer, test engineer, and security auditor help catch different classes of problems.  
🌍 The workflow is portable across tools because it is built on plain markdown instructions.  
💡 In Verdent, you can map the workflow into VERDENT dot md, AGENTS dot md, plan rules, custom subagents, and parallel workspaces.  
✅ The biggest win is better process, not benchmark hype, which leads to more reliable AI-assisted coding.

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Agent Skills by Addy Osmani is an open-source GitHub repo that packages a structured engineering workflow into reusable skills for AI coding agents. Rather than just prompting agents to 'be better,' it encodes a full software lifecycle: spec, plan, build, test, review, simplify, and ship. The repo includes 22 skills covering spec-driven development, TDD, API design, security, performance, and more, plus specialist personas like code reviewer, test engineer, and security auditor. The video explains how to adapt this framework to various AI coding tools, with detailed guidance on integrating it into Verdent (an AI coding orchestration tool) using global rules, project rules, plan rules, custom sub-agents, and parallel workspaces. The core argument is that workflow discipline matters as much as model quality in AI-assisted development.

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