Gems

1. Matt Pocock skills

Open terminal and paste this command:

npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills

Install grill-with-docs, grill-me and teach.

2. Use HTML

I want a dashboard for this data but I have no visual taste and don't know what's possible. Make me an HTML page with 4 wildly different design directions so I can react to them.

Via Thariq.

3. Building the Hill Climbing Machine

A useful reference for better AI-generated interface and artifact prompts. Keep it in the swipe file.

Link: building the hill climbing machine.

4. Agent Evaluation Framework

Before calling something an agent, answer these:

  1. 01What job does each agent own?
  2. 02What channel does it live in?
  3. 03What tools/data can it access?
  4. 04What state/memory does it maintain?
  5. 05What can it do autonomously?
  6. 06What requires human approval?
  7. 07How do we evaluate if it is helping?

5. You Might Well Ask...

What's the single smartest and radically innovating and accretive and useful and compelling addition you could make to the project at this point.

6. Or alternatively...

Forget what exists so far. If you were starting this from scratch today, knowing what AI can do, what would you build instead?

7. Use This Build Prompt

Pablo Stanley turned the pattern into a clean template. Keep this handy for visual, interactive, or single-file builds.

Generated prompt

Build [THING] in [TECH/FRAMEWORK]. It should include [MAIN FEATURES], with [INTERACTION/ANIMATION/BEHAVIOR DETAILS]. Make it feel [MOOD/QUALITY], using [VISUAL DETAILS], [ENVIRONMENT DETAILS], and [EXTRA EFFECTS]. Output as [FORMAT/FILE TYPE].

For this task, write yourself a goal and spawn up to 4 agents in parallel — one per independent workstream. Each agent should open with a single line saying what it's doing. Wait for all agents in a batch to return before spawning the next batch. Synthesize as results come in.

Source: Pablo Stanley's tweet.

8. Daily Morning Brief

A prompt for setting up a lightweight daily operating brief with an archive and weekly pattern review.

9. Lower-Power Subagent

For each task use your judgement to assign a lower power agent or parallel subagents.

Source: Simon Willison's tweet.

10. Loop Library

A reference library for AI workflow loops and repeatable agentic patterns.

Link: Forward Future Loop Library.