🧩 Skills & Plugins

Claude/Codex skills & plugins, custom tools.

BlogFigma • Georgia Rust & Rodrigo Davies

Figma's Design Agent, Now With Custom Tools and Greater Context

Figma's design agent gains custom tools, richer context sources, and reusable skills.

• Build custom reusable generative plugins on the canvas.
• Attach files and reference Figma files / web / MCP connectors for context.
• Turn frequent prompts into shareable slash-command "skills".

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🎨 Design & UX🛠️ Tools & Apps🧩 Skills & Plugins

added by Adam Tomat • 29th Jun 2026

BlogVercel • John Phamous

Teaching agents product design at Vercel

Vercel's repo-based skill that encodes product and design decisions for coding agents.

• Design decisions encoded as a versioned skill.
• Keeps agent-built UI consistent with the product.
• The skill lives in the repo, next to the code.

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🎨 Design & UX🤖 Building with Agents🧩 Skills & Plugins

added by Adam Tomat • 26th Jun 2026

BlogDecoding AI • Paul Iusztin

Build, Configure, or Use As-Is: The Agentic Harness

Argues ~80% of agent harnesses are identical, so decide what to build vs configure vs use off-the-shelf for the other 20%.

• Tools and catalogs are mostly YAML — configure, don't build.
• Skills are markdown recipes; the memory layer is the piece worth custom-building.
• Safety must live in a deterministic layer, not in prompts.

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🤖 Building with Agents🧩 Skills & Plugins

added by Adam Tomat • 23rd Jun 2026

ToolTessl

Tessl — agent enablement platform

A platform to build, test, distribute, and govern AI agent "skills" at team / enterprise scale.

• Security scanning, policy, and audit before a skill deploys.
• A shared, versioned skill registry.
• Tracks real activation / usage plus evals.

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🛠️ Tools & Apps🧩 Skills & Plugins👥 Teams & Ways of Working

added by Tom Harper • 23rd Jun 2026

BlogPolar

Building an LLM-safe design system (Polar's Orbit)

A typed component design system built to keep LLM-generated UI on-brand.

• Typed components constrain what the LLM can produce.
• "Safe" means on-brand by construction, not by review.
• Complements agent design skills.

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🎨 Design & UX🧩 Skills & Plugins

added by Adam Tomat • 18th Jun 2026

VideoAI Native DevCon

AI Native DevCon London 2026 (playlist)

The full talk playlist from AI Native DevCon London 2026 (1–2 June, The Brewery, London).

• Guy Podjarny — "Skills are the New Code": agent instructions/context are becoming a software unit needing intent, review, testing and versioning.
• Birgitta Böckeler — "State of Play: AI Coding Assistants": field data on which adoption patterns work vs. create tech debt.
• Patrick Debois — "The Rise of Agent Enablement": frames agent enablement as a new org function alongside DevOps/Platform Engineering.

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🤖 Building with Agents🧩 Skills & Plugins👥 Teams & Ways of Working

added by Tom Harper • 17th Jun 2026

DocsAnthropic

frontend-design SKILL.md (anthropics/skills)

Anthropic's own skill for producing distinctive, intentional frontend design — not generic templates.

• A two-pass process: draft a compact design plan, then self-critique for genericness.
• Names three "AI-default" clichés to avoid.
• Build with real content, and spend "boldness" on one signature element.

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🎨 Design & UX🧩 Skills & Plugins✍️ Prompting & Context

added by Adam Tomat • 16th Jun 2026