Skill engineering for AI agents
Great techniques are trapped inside tutorial videos. I press them into skill files: one markdown file your AI agent reads and permanently knows the technique. No rewatching, no re-prompting, no losing it when the session ends.
Pressed skills have shipped real work
The result is one markdown file. Drop it into your skills folder and Claude Code (or any agent that reads instructions) knows the technique in every future session. This practice has a name: skill engineering. You could do it yourself. The shelf exists so you do not have to.
The 4-lever prompt structure (role, context, negative, verify) that raises first-pass agent output from roughly 60% to 80% usable.
Container vs item properties, the main-axis mental model, and a quick decision guide your agent can apply to any layout bug.
Five concrete habits that cut token burn, including the PDF double-charge trap and the CLAUDE.md tax most people never notice.
The master-prompt framework for handing an agent one ambitious goal and letting it self-orchestrate to a finished business. This skill helped build the site you are reading.
A plan/execute agent split with a persistent folder handoff, so context never dies between sessions and tools stay interchangeable.
One mega-prompt that drives voice, avatar, and edit tools end to end to produce a narrated video, with a built-in self-QA pass.
Effort settings, model routing, and review guardrails that keep a top-tier coding model fast and affordable on real repos.
The Karpathy-style second brain: an agent that ingests sources into a persistent, cross-linked markdown wiki you own forever.
A weekly, self-improving SEO loop that runs against real Search Console data. This exact skill runs on four live properties right now.
Build a scroll-scrubbed cinematic landing page where the camera flies through a connected world. This skill shipped a live production page.
A four-step roadmap from quietly automating your own job to a formalized, paid AI role at your current company.
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Yes. Paste a transcript into Claude and ask for a skill file, it works. The shelf is not selling the button, it is selling curation and testing: I find the videos worth pressing, press them properly, and run each one on a real task before it ships. You pay to skip that hour, eleven times and counting.
Built for Claude Code skills first. But a pressed skill is plain markdown instructions, so Cursor rules, custom GPTs, and anything that accepts a system prompt or instruction file can use them.
Every skill names, credits, and links its source video, and pressed skills send viewers back to creators. If you made one of the source videos and want your pressing featured, removed, or revenue-shared, write me through the form and pick Something else. I answer everything.
No. A summary tells you what the video said. A skill tells your agent what to do: steps, exact settings, code, and the gotchas. Download a free one and judge for yourself.
If the library is not useful to you, reply to your receipt within 30 days and I refund it. No forms, no questions.