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I A/B-tested 9 popular AI agent skills. 4 of them did nothing.

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Agent skills are everywhere this year. A skill is a SKILL.md file that teaches a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI…) how to do something: verify before saying "done", keep diffs small, review code for real bugs. Some skill repos have hundreds of thousands of stars. I noticed nobo…

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  1. 2026-10-04 12:29 · DEV Community — AI
    I A/B-tested 9 popular AI agent skills. 4 of them did nothing.

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