Peter Yang's 5-step guide to building AI skills that check their own work and improve over time: 1) Give it context—provide examples of good output. 2) Make it easy to trigger—write a clear skill description. 3) Add evals—create an evals md with 10 pass/fail checks. 4) Add memory—create a memory md to capture learnings from past chats. 5) Build a skill to edit skills—create a meta-skill that cleans up other skills by removing duplicates, stale instructions, and AI slop.
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How to build AI skills that check their own work and improve over time:
1. Give it context. Ask AI: 'Create a skill for this [repeated task]. Here are examples of good output.'
2. Make it easy to trigger. 'Write a clear skill description using this pattern: Use when the user wants to [do this].'
3. Add evals. 'Create an evals md with 10 pass/fail checks for common errors.'
4. Add memory. 'Create a memory md to capture one-sentence learnings from past chats using this skill.'
5. Build a skill to edit skills. 'Create a skill that cleans up other skills by removing duplicate or stale instructions, vague rules, and AI slop.'