Find reusable skills that make AI agents more capable

Manus's trick of writing context to Markdown, packaged as the open-source skill planning-with-files: three Markdown files plus lifecycle hooks let an agent pick up where it stopped after a /clear, a crash, or context compaction.

A Codex illustration skill for Chinese articles. Instead of producing generic AI-flavored decoration, it reads the argument first, finds the cognitive move, and turns it into a strange hand-drawn Xiaohei scene.

Strip away the 'AI design' label and it's 161 industry rules plus a Python search script — which is what keeps your AI from defaulting to that telltale purple-pink-gradient look.

Every other AI image tool ships with more knobs. op7418's new social-card skill ships with fewer — users can't customize palettes at all, only choose from 10 designer presets.

Agents365's drawio-skill adds something most AI diagram tools skip: after generating XML it reads its own rendered PNG, finds overlaps and clipped labels, and fixes them before handing the result back.

A review of Superpowers, an agentic skills framework and software development methodology for making AI coding agents follow planning, TDD, review, and verification workflows.