Editorial guides on agent skills, SKILL.md, and how to ship safer, more reliable AI workflows. From the SkillsAuth team.
Published Apr 13, 2026 · 5 min read

— The blurry line between helpful autonomy and dangerous overreach. When does "smart" become "rogue"? You asked your AI agent to refactor a function. It refactored the function. Then it updated the tests. Changed the config file. Installed a new dependency. And pushed to main. You didn't ask for any of that. Was it being helpful? Or was it being dangerous? This is the question nobody's asking loudly enough — and it's the defining tension of AI agents in 2026. The line between a smart assistan
Published Apr 11, 2026 · 4 min read

That AI agent in your IDE? The one writing your tests, refactoring your code, spinning up components in seconds? It can also read your SSH keys. Access your .env files. Execute shell commands. Install packages. Connect to external servers.And most of the time, you never explicitly said it could. 🔑Your AI agent runs with your permissions. If you can access production credentials, so can it. If you can push to main, so can it. The Attack Surface You Didn't Sign Up For AI coding agents in 2026
Published Apr 3, 2026 · 2 min read

Stop Coding Like It’s 2024: The Ultimate Claude Code Cheatsheet If you’re still manually explaining your tech stack to an AI every time you open a new terminal session, you’re working too hard. It’s 2026—coding isn't just about writing syntax anymore; it’s about context orchestration. I’ve spent the last few months breaking down the most efficient Claude Code workflows, and I’ve condensed it into this 4-layer master strategy. If you want to move at the speed of thought, this is the only cheats
Published Mar 31, 2026 · 4 min read
If you've been following the AI agent space, you've seen SKILL.md pop up everywhere — Claude Code, VS Code Copilot, OpenAI Codex CLI, Cursor. But most people treat it as "just a markdown file with instructions." That is a profound underestimate of what's actually happening under the hood. This post is the deep dive. By the end, you'll understand the architecture, the secrets that make it scale, the hidden prompting patterns that separate great skills from mediocre ones, and why this became an i
Published Mar 31, 2026

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