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Agent config: Record lessons as GitHub issues instead of directly editing skills#1618

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Agents were instructed to directly update or create skills based on lessons learned during tasks. This bypasses triage and can introduce low-quality skill changes. The usethis-github-issue-create skill already exists for exactly this purpose.

  • Replace the "try and update the relevant skills / create a new skill" instruction in the Lessons section with a directive to use usethis-github-issue-create to record lessons as GitHub issues
  • Strengthen language from "try and" to "ALWAYS" to match the tone of other directives in AGENTS.md

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…editing skills

Replace instruction to directly update/create skills with instruction to use
the usethis-github-issue-create skill to record lessons as GitHub issues for
triage.

Resolves #1618

Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/usethis-python/usethis-python/sessions/8072bce1-d777-48a9-9e08-d22c2e9d0af4

Co-authored-by: nathanjmcdougall <18602289+nathanjmcdougall@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Remove instruction to write skills directly in agent config Agent config: Record lessons as GitHub issues instead of directly editing skills Mar 27, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from nathanjmcdougall March 27, 2026 12:42
@nathanjmcdougall nathanjmcdougall marked this pull request as ready for review March 27, 2026 12:56
@nathanjmcdougall nathanjmcdougall merged commit 994bf68 into main Mar 27, 2026
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Agent config: More aggressively surface lesson information

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