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AI skill design principles

Heuristics for composing modular, scale-aware LLM skill architectures

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  • agent-harness-design.md7 members

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  • Design principles for care-centered systems7 shared
  • Skill-based system design principles7 shared

Claims (7)

  • A skill should do its work and stop, avoiding performative complexity and multi-stage flows when single-pass suffices.
  • A skill works at multiple reinforcing scales: individual command, skill invocation, and user project.
  • A skill's output length should match task complexity—short tasks produce short reports, long tasks produce structured hierarchical reports.
  • Every skill should have one unmistakable thing it does; sprawling skills violate the Strong Centers principle.
  • Parallel sub-tasks within skills and across skill families should produce parallel outputs for legibility.
  • Skills should interconnect with each other rather than operate independently; output of one feeds another.
  • Skills that occasionally produce unexpected output may be more useful than perfectly predictable skills.