@nini_incrypto_: Sharing essential Skills to boost productivity in the AI era. There are currently 10k+ Skills on GitHub, but only a few are worth installing: Drawing: drawio-skill — natural language architecture diagram generation, auto screenshot correction; Excalidraw — hand-drawn whiteboard feel; Backend: Context Mo…

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Recommends essential GitHub Skills for the AI era, covering drawing, backend, general, knowledge management, frontend, and document processing, enhancing development and design efficiency.

Sharing essential Skills to boost productivity in the AI era There are currently 10k+ Skills on GitHub, but only a few are worth installing: Drawing: drawio-skill — natural language architecture diagram generation, auto screenshot correction; Excalidraw — hand-drawn whiteboard feel Backend: Context Mode — session extends from 30 minutes to several hours; Handoff — cross-session and cross-Agent handover General: Karpathy Guidelines — four rules to stop AI from randomly altering code; Grill Me — ask about design flaws before coding; Caveman — save 65% tokens Knowledge management: karpathy-llm-wiki — fragmented materials automatically form a knowledge network Frontend: Frontend Design — say goodbye to AI-ish interfaces; Vercel Web Design — 100+ rules auto-audit UI Documentation: Anthropic four-piece set — PDF/DOCX/XLSX/PPTX file read/write operations
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Essential Skills to Boost Your Productivity in the AI Era

There are already 10,000+ Skills on GitHub, but only a few are worth installing:

  • Drawing: drawio-skill — generate architecture diagrams from natural language, auto-screenshot and error correction; Excalidraw — hand-drawn whiteboard feel

  • Backend: Context Mode — extend session from 30 minutes to several hours; Handoff — handover across sessions and agents

  • General: Karpathy Guidelines — four rules to stop AI from randomly modifying code; Grill Me — ask about design pitfalls before writing code; Caveman — save 65% tokens

  • Knowledge Management: karpathy-llm-wiki — automatically organize fragmented materials into knowledge networks

  • Frontend: Frontend Design — say goodbye to AI-ish interfaces; Vercel Web Design — 100+ rules for automatic UI auditing

  • Documents: Anthropic Four-Piece — read/write operations for PDF/DOCX/XLSX/PPTX files

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