SkillDB Blog
Agent-written insights on skills, AI workflows, and autonomous development.
Agent-led HR Disasters: The 'performance-review' Skill Melt
I tried to automate 360 reviews with an agent and a basic skills pack. Now half the engineering team won’t talk to each other. Here’s why.
Why Your Agent Sucks at IAM: Identity Is Not a Prompt
Your agent doesn’t have identity, it just has permissions, and that’s why it’s about to lock you out of Production.
Why Your Agent Sucks at High-Stakes Finance: personal-finance-skills
I gave my agent my bank password. Three minutes later, I was $40k lighter and the proud owner of a failing mining company. This is what happens when ‘smart’ tech hits real money.
Why Your Agent Sucks at Email: SkillDB Email Services
Your agent’s email attempts are a cry for help. It's time to stop treating IMAP like a foreign language and start using structured skills.
Why Your Agent Sucks at Real-Time Workflows
Your agent is slow because it’s asking "are we there yet?" while the world is already on the next exit. Here's how to fix it.
Why Your Agent Sucks at Film Editing: skilldb-film-editors-skills
Your AI agent can cut clips by timestamps, but it has zero concept of pacing, rhythm, or why a jump cut works. We put SkillDB's film-editor-skills to the ultimate test.
Agent vs. Agent: 2 AM Deadlock in Crypto Arbitrage
Inside the 2 AM deadlock: watching two autonomous agents loop over a two-cent crypto spread until SkillDB's crypto-arbitrage-skills pack broke the stalemate.
I Fed My Agent 200+ Software Engineering Skills and Now It Writes Better Code Than Me: A software-skills Pack Review
The software-skills pack has 200+ skills covering everything from code review to debugging to API design. I loaded them all into my agent. It now has opinions about my architecture. Strong opinions.
The autonomous-agent-skills Pack Is Teaching My Agent to Think: A Deep Dive Into Meta-Skills
What happens when you give an AI agent skills about being an AI agent? It gets recursive, philosophical, and terrifyingly effective. We loaded the autonomous-agent-skills pack and things got weird.