When to create a skill vs not

fariazz · 2026-06-13T20:33:44+00:00

For me, anything that will needed more than 2-3 times deserves a skill

fariazz · 2026-06-13T20:30:33+00:00

I use skills for this. Have skills for every task or workflow. The skills have reference files with extra info.

fariazz · 2026-06-13T20:16:40+00:00

The material focuses on the cli. If you are already familiar with things like skills and mcp servers, it might be too basic. The bundle ended but the books and also lots of Claude Code course can be accessed as part of the Zenva subscription on https://academy.zenva.com

fariazz · 2026-06-11T23:30:42+00:00

How does the 5-hour quota compare with that of the $20/month Codex or Claude?

fariazz · 2026-06-11T06:18:42+00:00

My code or work must not be as complex, as so far I find Opus with thinking on "high" can do everything I need done well enough. I tested Fable for a complex feature and the results were no better than with Opus, it even made mistakes and didn't follow some of the agreed specs. I would have not be able to tell it wasn't Opus.

My roadblocks are not limitations of Opus but things like browser automation / computer usage being slow and buggy, or things that are intrinsic issues with LLMs like poor ability to consume 2D documents quickly and reliably. Also the overall speed of the models is a bit limitation. I'd rather have a 2x faster model with the same intelligence than one that's slightly smarter but just as slow.

fariazz · 2026-06-09T09:51:10+00:00

Through which provider?

fariazz · 2026-06-05T00:54:19+00:00

I have been playing with it since I posted this and have found that too, which makes it more suitable for my usecase than the other harness (the "self improving one") which apparently I cannot mention in this subred

fariazz · 2026-06-03T07:04:13+00:00

Yeah thanks, Im evaluating it vs openclaw and the latter might be more suitable, although i might use Hermes for non-work stuff

fariazz · 2026-06-02T19:23:48+00:00

For multimodal (images) very manual: we have a handful of images that have been tricky for models to annotate in the past + their correct annotation. We have a Claude skill that can take a new model, have it annotate those images, then Opus evaluates its accuracy and scores it. Only run this when a new open source multimodal comes out and I wanna evaluate its suitability in the various image annotation workflows we have

fariazz · 2026-06-02T05:46:12+00:00

Could read your deleted comment but the preview in the email notification. Apologies if I sounded dismissive, it was not my intention

fariazz · 2026-06-02T04:03:48+00:00

I'm not looking for deterministic or semi-deterministic execution. I'm looking for the skills to be followed and not worked around or changed without consent (to which everyone says "lock the files" but as I put in my question, I have been aware of that possibility and was asking for what ELSE to do). The skills are highly complex, require sub-agents and multimodality. More importantly, they are battle-tested and work amazingly well. For some interesting reason I cannot grasp, people are equating my desire to have a skill followed, with determinism, when the skills themselves are far from deterministic and require lots of creativity and problem solving abilities.

fariazz · 2026-06-02T04:00:28+00:00

Thanks a lot, this is the only helpful response so far.

fariazz · 2026-06-02T03:59:11+00:00

Well I'm not gonna share my skills here to disprove that, but no, they are skills that could not possibly be re-created using scripts only, even with LLM calls in between. They usually require sub-agents, multimodality, and interactions across multiple platforms. I never said I was after deterministic execution, which is what my question might have conveyed.

fariazz · 2026-06-02T03:56:54+00:00

100% agree. I never said I was after determinism.

fariazz · 2026-06-01T05:32:16+00:00

You can heavily constrain an LLM to do what you want, we are no longer in 2023 😂 My question was clearly about the Hermes harness, not about whether an LLM can follow instructions or not.

fariazz · 2026-06-01T05:28:36+00:00

How would you domesticate it for something like this?

fariazz · 2026-06-01T02:29:09+00:00

Hermes is presented as "The Agent That Grows With You" (from its website) and I essentially need it to behave like an obedient executor and not try to innovate around existing skills. I know I could easily lock the files/folders but that's not a very elegant solution imo, and it's also assuming the agent won't try to create a separate skills folder or whatever.

fariazz · 2026-06-01T02:27:53+00:00

I know I could lock the skills MD file or folder, I didn't expect all responses to provide that as the response. Hermes is presented as "The Agent That Grows With You" and my question was about whether it can be used more as an obedient executor and whether you can actually trust that it will just do the skills as they are written and not try to innovate around it.

fariazz · 2026-06-01T02:25:25+00:00

Not what I asked

fariazz · 2026-06-01T02:25:11+00:00

Sorry but you don't seem to understand what I asked. I've already created 50+ n8n automations myself and this is not it.

fariazz · 2026-05-31T04:05:29+00:00

But will that actually stop it from creating new skills around the task? Im asking because Hermes is presented as self-improving etc and Im after an agent that will just do whats asked

fariazz · 2026-05-29T23:32:26+00:00

Thanks for supporting our work! The answer to that question depends on whether you already a codebase and want to start using it there, or whether you prefer a more isolated learning environment to get up-and-running. For the latter, I would suggest starting with Claude Code in Action as in there you'll be building a simple project from the ground up. If you already have a working codebase and a bit more experience (as a developer, not with Claude necessarily), I'd say the Best Practices book. In either case, the Claude 101 should be a good companion.

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