Agent Skills

Portable skill guides, definitions, and operating playbooks for AI agents.

7 articles

Each skill guide includes a portable SKILL.md pattern, recommended metadata, and operating rules an agent can use directly.

May 14, 2026 16 min

Cold Email Engagement-First Outreach: An Agent Skill For 2026 Cold Campaigns

A source-lineaged root combo skill for planning, drafting, auditing, and rewriting cold outreach. Distilled from seven cold-email source analyses into one master playbook for high-volume campaigns, strategic accounts, single-target relationship outreach, reply revival, investor fundraising, founder-led outreach, recruiting, PR, partnerships, and customer research.

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May 10, 2026 14 min

Viral Content For Boring Brands: An Agent Skill For Brand-Account Content

A source-lineaged agent skill for designing or auditing brand-account content (B2B SaaS, dev tools, commodity products) against the six pre-conscious filters that decide whether a viewer scrolls or stays in the first two seconds.

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May 02, 2026 9 min

Hook Craft For Short-Form: An Agent Skill For Better Openers

A source-lineaged agent skill for drafting, auditing, and rewriting hooks across short-form video, blog leads, social posts, demo openers, and pitch slide 1.

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May 02, 2026 9 min

Story-Driven Content Craft: An Agent Skill For Nonfiction That Holds Attention

A source-lineaged agent skill for structuring founder essays, video scripts, social posts, and pitch narratives with stronger loops, rhythm, lens, payoff, and retention craft.

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May 02, 2026 18 min

UI/UX Quality Review: An Agent Skill For Product Interface Audits

A source-lineaged agent skill for reviewing product screens, landing pages, dashboards, and mobile flows. Each principle ships in two layers: human-readable principle + agent-checkable rules with thresholds and named patterns.

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May 01, 2026 8 min

Landing Page Scorecard Funnel: An Agent Skill For Qualified Lead Capture

A portable agent skill for designing assessment-driven landing pages that sell the scorecard, capture useful signals, personalize results, and route leads by fit.

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Apr 27, 2026 8 min

Google Calendar For AI Agents: Search Before You Create

A portable Google Calendar skill for AI agents: choose scope first, search before creating events, use exact IDs for mutations, and treat recurrence as high risk.

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Agent Skills

Cold Email Engagement-First Outreach: An Agent Skill For 2026 Cold Campaigns

Viral Content For Boring Brands: An Agent Skill For Brand-Account Content

Hook Craft For Short-Form: An Agent Skill For Better Openers

Story-Driven Content Craft: An Agent Skill For Nonfiction That Holds Attention

UI/UX Quality Review: An Agent Skill For Product Interface Audits

Landing Page Scorecard Funnel: An Agent Skill For Qualified Lead Capture

Google Calendar For AI Agents: Search Before You Create

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Getting Started

Productivity Tips

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Source Analyses

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