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Over the last few posts, I've worked through the five doc types that configure AI agents, why they count as internal documentation, and how to write skills and score them.

Last time, I walked through writing skills that agents can actually execute and introduced skill-validator as a way to catch structural and content issues before an agent ever sees the skill.

First, I argued that agent configurations are documentation.

A few months into working with AI agents on a documentation project, I'd noticed some inconsistency in agent behaviors and decided to do some digging.

The people best positioned to configure AI agents like Claude Code aren't engineers.

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