YC-backed team launches AI Skills, a framework to score how well engineers manage coding agents
ycombinator · x · 2026-10-23
Y Combinator amplified Adam Cohen's introduction of AI Skills, a framework targeting what the team calls the biggest engineering challenge of the past year: managing coding agents.
They built a judge model that scores every prompt an engineer writes across six dimensions, producing a measurable rating of how well that engineer manages agents. It's an attempt to turn "agent management" into a scored, evaluable engineering skill — details in the linked post.
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