How to build great agent Skills

Hosted by Colin Matthews

Mon, May 4, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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What you'll learn

Learn how skills actually work

Build an understand of what a skill is and how an LLM leverages it

No jargon, every term explained

Finally get a clear understanding of skills and plugins

Learn the iterative loop to improve your skills

Discover why one-shotting a skill is a bad approach and how you can iteratively improve your skills

Why this topic matters

Skills give agents opinionated, repeatable instructions that can transform the quality of your agents or personal workflows. Building great skills isn't hard, but there are a few steps that are critical to the process. Learn how to collect a data set of good responses, iterate on your skill with an LLM, and how to leverage recency bias to nudge your agents in the right direction.

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Colin Matthews

Sold my first SaaS in 2021. Product Manager, 8500+ students, featured by Lenny.

I’ve had my fair share of doubt when it came to technical skills. From flunking out of my first software engineering interview, to struggling to build my own SaaS products for years, I’ve always felt like an imposter.


In 2021, everything changed. I sold my first SaaS product as an independent developer.


Now, with AI tools, you can accomplish months of works in just hours using the right strategies. I want to help you use AI to build your software — whether thats for your own personal apps, work, or to sell a SaaS of your own. 

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