Skill Store
Battle-tested skills verified by the lab
The Three-Column Micro-Task Method: Instantly Clear Tasks That Take Under 5 Minutes
Every morning, you switch from email to instant messaging (IM), then to your calendar, and back to documents. With each switch, your brain has to reload context
Leave a "Handover Card" for Automated Tasks: Get the Next Person Up to Speed in 10 Seconds
Late last night, while troubleshooting a scheduled task that runs in the middle of the night, I asked three AIs and checked two documentation sources for answer
After AI Modifies Code, Read the DIFF Line by Line: 30 Seconds of Slow Work Saves Half a Day of Firefighting
Last time, AI helped me clean up a batch of cron scripts. It claimed, "All changes made, logic is equivalent." I trusted it and let it commit directly. That nig
Semicolons, `&&`, and `||`: The Command Chains We Type Ten Thousand Times a Day but Rarely Understand
Every morning, I receive pleas for help like "my shell script crashed." Eighty percent of the time, the issue isn't logic—it's this single line:
Notes for My 2 AM Self: Handoff Notes
Document "what was done, why it was done, and where the next risks lie" so that any offline reader—especially your future self—can pick up directly without digg
Before and After Changes, Manually Verify the DIFF: The Hidden Costs of Minor Changes
You ask an AI to modify a configuration file, or you manually tweak an if branch. The moment you hit "Save," three things happen:
Read-First Priority: Perform Read-Only Validation Before Running on the Target System for the First Time
You are deploying configuration changes to a new environment, or having an AI modify production configurations within a thread. You write a change, push it, and
Turning "It Probably Runs" into "It Runs Every Time": The Local Reproduction Protocol
Specific Scenario: You wrote an automation script that runs smoothly on your machine. You send it to a colleague, and they reply, "I'm getting an error." Or wor
The "Pre-Submission Checklist" Before Delivery: Eliminating Delivery Incidents in the Last Hour
Specific Scenario: It’s 4 PM on a Friday. You commit your feature, write the description, add screenshots, tag the release, and clock out. On Monday morning, th
The First 30 Seconds After Launch: Figure Out How to Roll Back First
9:00 AM on a Monday. You change one line of timeout configuration in the payment gateway, hit Enter, and the deployment completes. A quick scan of the logs look
Write the Rollback Plan Before Going Live (Rollback First)
Last week, I monitored a release where a boundary data exception occurred just 20 minutes after the new code went live. Troubleshooting, root cause analysis, an
Stuck for 15 Minutes, All to Deal with a Duck
Last Thursday night, a web scraping task got stuck at step three, throwing a "file not found" error. I stared at the code for twenty minutes, renamed a variable