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I’m using wf: christophertkenny.com/wf/ (Admittedly, I’m probably the only one using it because I wrote it)

Oh, that's very helpful, thanks! I had Claude make a similar package yesterday, but I think yours is better.

Out of curiosity, what is the significance of the name {wf}?

Do you add skills to the project-specific folder or to the global skill folder (.e.g ~/.claude/skills/) or does it depend on the skill?

I use project-specific skills for everything. It might not be the most efficient choice, but some of the skills I use compete (eg, package dev practices vs data analysis)

If I know the url/repo, I just tell Claude to ingest it that way. For our tidymodels skills, we added some additional instructions in case that did not work: github.com/tidymodels/s...

That's helpful, thanks. It looks like the skills and instructions are only for Claude. Is there a reason for this?

what are agent skills exactly?

I'm a fan of `npx skills add`, but I also made a small similar wrapper in btw: `btw skills install`. There's also `btw_skill_install_github()` and related functions you can call from R: posit-dev.github.io/btw/dev/refe...

Also, the next version of {btw} will ship (soon!) with `btw_skill_install_project()` to install all skills shipped a project's dependencies -- i.e. R packages with skills in inst/skills posit-dev.github.io/btw/dev/refe...

This is perfect, thanks!