{"slug": "agent-skills-from-jane-street", "title": "Agent Skills from Jane Street", "summary": "Jane Street released a collection of agent skills, distributed as directories each containing a SKILL.md file with instructions for AI agents and chatbots. The first listed skill, socratic-tutor, turns an LLM into a strict personal tutor that teaches a chosen topic via the Socratic method, using a diagnostic, a skill map with levels 0-5, one question at a time, spaced review, and a final assessment. Users install a skill by copying its directory into a coding agent's skills folder and asking the agent to use it, or by pasting the SKILL.md body into a plain chatbot's prompt.", "body_md": "A collection of skills for AI agents and chatbots.\nEach skill is a directory containing a `SKILL.md` file\nwith instructions for the agent.\n\n- **socratic-tutor** — turns an LLM into a strict personal tutor that teaches a\ntopic of your choice using the Socratic method: a diagnostic, a skill map with\nlevels 0-5, one question at a time, spaced review, and a final assessment.\n\nWith a coding agent that supports the common `SKILL.md` format, copy the skill\ndirectory into your agent's skills folder, then ask the agent to use it\n(\"teach me X\").\n\nWith a plain chatbot, paste the body of the skill's `SKILL.md` into the chat\n(or into a custom/system prompt), followed by what you want it to do.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agent-skills-from-jane-street", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/janestreet/agent_skills", "published_at": "2026-11-09 18:08:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-09 18:21:58.971756+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Jane Street", "socratic-tutor"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agent-skills-from-jane-street", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agent-skills-from-jane-street.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agent-skills-from-jane-street.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agent-skills-from-jane-street.jsonld"}}