Creating and using AI Skills

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

I’ve had AI Skills on the mind lately and realized I had neglected updating a few of my own and it was high time to handle that.

In this article we’ll cover installing and using some common public skills, like Anthropic’s skills and specifically their “skill creator” skill. We’ll use that in Google Antigravity and Copilot to cleanup an older Python App skill I have.

We’ll then test using the Python App skill in Cline, a local CLI Harness with a 12b gemma4 model running in Ollama on a laptop with a 12Gb 3070 card in it.

A 1980s Airline Repair guide may be a cure for AI Slop

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500

In the last few days I’ve been rather fixated on this YouTube video called “The cure for AI slop is a 1986 aircraft manual”. If you like more of a narrative, pause here and watch the video.

First, a bit of context…

Simplified Technical English has its starts going all the way back to the 1930s with “Basic English” and later the 1970s with CFE, Caterpillar Technical English and Kodak International Service Language (KISL). Per the CFE documentation:

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Creating and using AI Skills

A 1980s Airline Repair guide may be a cure for AI Slop

First, a bit of context…