How to Add Skills to Code Agents
Vesper_Veks · reddit · 2026-07-15
The post asks what "skills / instructions" are most useful to give code agents like Codex, Cursor, Devin, and Antigravity to keep a project from becoming a mess.
The author's context is a student developer working on a hackathon project. They already have a PRD and architecture but don't want to dump massive blocks of requirements into the agent. Instead, they want to know:
- Which skills help the agent write better code
- How to make it structure the project systematically
- How to enable it to self-test after generation
- How to persist context to files for easy switching between different editor agents
Essentially, they are seeking an engineering configuration approach suited for multi-code editor and multi-agent collaboration.
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