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@timsaucer timsaucer commented May 22, 2026

Walks through the user-facing vs developer skill split, the TPC-H
grounding exercise, and the iterative feedback loop we used to keep the
skills honest as the API moved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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All nits so accept or reject however makes sense to you. This looks great. Excited for when this publishes

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The staged URL is not working for me

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perhaps the staging was overwritten by the ballista 53 blog, https://datafusion.staged.apache.org/blog/

timsaucer and others added 3 commits May 26, 2026 09:11
Address ntjohnson1's review on the writing-agent-skills post: trim
filler wording, fix mixed tenses, disambiguate "wrapped library", and
link the first mention of "skill" to agentskills.io. Also add a new
paragraph explaining how end users selectively install one of several
skills via `npx skills add --skill <name>`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per ntjohnson1's review: explain that loading the user skill while
authoring maintainer code surfaces hallucinated APIs as ergonomic
signal (e.g. `exists_ok` shaped by other Python libs), and that the
same skill keeps maintainer-written docstrings, examples, and tests
idiomatic on the first pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per ntjohnson1's review: pass 3 should also surface inconsistencies in
the repo itself. When the agent emits a non-idiomatic pattern, ask
where it came from — if the answer is an examples/ script, a stale
docstring, or a README snippet, fix that source as well as the skill,
since the skill alone cannot stop future agents or human contributors
from rediscovering the drift.

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Thank you for the comments @ntjohnson1 ! @andygrove the site should work, at least until someone pushes another branch that overwrites it. The latest site/ branch is the one that gets staged.

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Thank you for the comments @ntjohnson1 ! @andygrove the site should work, at least until someone pushes another branch that overwrites it. The latest site/ branch is the one that gets staged.

Oh, I didn't know that it only showed the latest pending branch

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