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- Install a coding agent CLI and ask "How can I use {this tool} for coding? What are skills? Can you make one and show me how to use it? Where can I find skills from communities on GitHub?"
Even better is to also tell the agent why, e.g. "I am used to coding in my IDE with auto-completion and Copilot chat, copying and pasting code snippets and testing via scripts. I see a lot of people talking about skills but don't know why they are useful or how to use them."
I try a lot of coding tools... The first thing I do is ask what the tool can do for me, and how it's going to be better than my process without the tool. If the agent can't articulate an answer, that's usually a sign the tool isn't right for me yet.
by TomEleff