{"slug": "ask-hn-what-agent-skills-are-necessary", "title": "Ask HN: What agent skills are necessary?", "summary": "A developer on Hacker News asked what skills are necessary for using LLM-assisted development, prompting advice to create skills for repetitive tasks and corrections. Recommendations included trying the Codex desktop app, especially for users on a plan with 5.6 SOL, or omp.sh for those interested in tinkering with advanced tools.", "body_md": "I’m an old school dev that has done minimal development assisted by an LLM. I’m interested in giving it a try but don’t know where to start. What skills are necessary or useful when starting out?\n\nJust make skills for things you're doing repeatedly / often correcting the model on.\n\nIf you are just starting i highly recommend trying out codex desktop app (it's good and just works, especially if you are on the plan that has 5.6 sol) or omp.sh if youre into figuring out and tinkering with the best tools available", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-agent-skills-are-necessary", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311545", "published_at": "2026-08-15 15:45:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-15 16:11:03.271678+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Hacker News", "Codex"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-agent-skills-are-necessary", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-agent-skills-are-necessary.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-agent-skills-are-necessary.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-what-agent-skills-are-necessary.jsonld"}}