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SKILL.md: How to Write Claude Skills That Actually Work (2026)

SKILL.md: How to Write Claude Skills That Actually Work (2026)

Agent Instruction Files 2026: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, SKILL.md & the Fight for the Agent's Context

Every serious AI coding agent now reads at least one markdown file before it touches your codebase. Some read two or three. A few come with their own proprietary formats layered on top. In 2026, the humble .md file has quietly become one of the most contested pieces of real

Jev by Type-Safe AI: A New Class of Decision Models

Discover how TypeSafe AI's Jev delivers typed decisions with calibrated confidence — 193.6x faster and 444.6x cheaper than LLMs for automation workflows. TypeSafe AI has introduced Jev, the first public System One Model — a new class of AI built specifically for decisions inside software. Unlike large language

$1.9 Million, Nine Restarts, and Zero Hiding: Xiaomi's MiMo V2.6 Live Dashboard

$1.9 Million, Nine Restarts, and Zero Hiding: Xiaomi's MiMo V2.6 Live Dashboard

Xiaomi did something this week that no frontier lab has attempted: it streamed its reinforcement learning run to the public. The MiMo team, led by former DeepSeek researcher Luo Fuli, launched a live dashboard on September 16 showing real-time training metrics for two unreleased models: MiMo-V2.6-Pro

AI News Daily: September 16, 2026

AI News Daily: September 16, 2026

Safety Takes Center Stage as OpenAI Discloses Model Mishaps, US-China AI Race Heats Up Wednesday, September 16, 2026, was a day that captured the AI industry at a crossroads. On one hand, frontier labs pushed hard on transparency and product velocity; on the other, the geopolitical fault lines of

Why You Keep Getting ChatGPT Verification Codes You Didn't Ask For

Why You Keep Getting ChatGPT Verification Codes You Didn't Ask For

Lately, a lot of people have been reporting a strange email landing in their inbox: "Your temporary ChatGPT verification code." It contains a six-digit code. The odd part? Many recipients have never signed up for ChatGPT — or never used that email address to register. Some people report

When ChatGPT Gets It Wrong: A LibreOffice Case Study in AI Errors

When ChatGPT Gets It Wrong: A LibreOffice Case Study in AI Errors

ChatGPT errors happen—even with simple software questions. See how a LibreOffice mistake unfolded, why AI gets things wrong, and how to spot and avoid ChatGPT errors.

2026-09-15: The Day AI Leaders Asked the World to Slow Down -And the World Said No

2026-09-15: The Day AI Leaders Asked the World to Slow Down -And the World Said No

Top AI news from the last ~24–48 hours: * AI leaders call for slowing frontier development * colliding with market * political * and competitive realities 1. The core event: A rare "pacing consensus" among AI leaders Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier,

i-have-adhd Review — The Tiny Skill That Stopped Claude From Burying the Answer

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i-have-adhd Review — The Tiny Skill That Stopped Claude From Burying the Answer

i-have-adhd is a free, open-source Claude Code and Codex skill that enforces ten ruthless output rules on your coding agent. No preamble. No “Great question!” No buried answers. Just the next action, numbered steps, and a concrete next step. It’s one of the simplest, most effective

The New AI Leaderboard: Astra, Fable, Gemini 3.8 and the Collapse of the "One Best Model"

The New AI Leaderboard: Astra, Fable, Gemini 3.8 and the Collapse of the "One Best Model"

September 2026 — If you haven't checked the AI model leaderboard in a few weeks, it's out of date. The first week of September alone brought three major releases: Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash on

Claude’s Bonus Reset Problem: Why a "Free" Gift Is Pushing Paying Users to OpenAI

Claude’s Bonus Reset Problem: Why a "Free" Gift Is Pushing Paying Users to OpenAI

For Anthropic’s paying subscribers, the weekly Claude usage reset is a familiar rhythm. But in 2026, that rhythm started to feel rigged. Users noticed a curious pattern: whenever Anthropic quietly added a bonus usage reset—an unannounced top-up of their quota—it almost always landed on a Thursday

Week That Changed AI - The AGI Era Begins? GPT-6 Astra, NVIDIA's $12.9B Hugging Face Deal

Week That Changed AI - The AGI Era Begins? GPT-6 Astra, NVIDIA's $12.9B Hugging Face Deal

September 6, 2026 — If you weren't paying close attention to AI last week, you missed what may go down as one of the most consequential seven-day stretches in the industry's short history. From OpenAI declaring the start of the "AGI era" to NVIDIA

GPT-6 Astra Review & Performance Tests

GPT-6 Astra Review & Performance Tests

Summary: GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's most capable reasoning model, and it performs like it — when you can afford to run it. At $10/$50 per million tokens, it's positioned as a premium frontier model that undercuts Anthropic's Opus on price while delivering comparable

'AI Apocalypse' Happened on Sept 3—But Here's the Full Breakdown

Good news first: everything is back to normal. A major, simultaneous outage hit several top AI services on Thursday, September 3, 2026. The press had a field day calling it an "AI apocalypse." But as of today (September 4, 2026), official status pages and live monitors confirm that

Headroom Review — The Context Compression Layer That’s Saving AI Agents Millions

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Headroom Review — The Context Compression Layer That’s Saving AI Agents Millions

Headroom is an open-source context compression layer that sits between your AI agent and the LLM, stripping away redundant tokens from tool outputs, logs, code, and RAG chunks before they ever reach the model. Same answers, dramatically lower bills. AI agent costs are spiraling out of control. A single

Stop Typing, Start Talking: The OpenWhispr Beginner's Guide

Stop Typing, Start Talking: The OpenWhispr Beginner's Guide

If you've ever wished you could just talk instead of type — and have your words show up perfectly formatted in whatever app you're using — that's exactly what OpenWhispr does. Here's everything a beginner needs to know before trying it. What Is OpenWhispr?

We Asked an AI Who'd Win the World Cup. Five Times. Here's How It Did.

We Asked an AI Who'd Win the World Cup. Five Times. Here's How It Did.

Between January and June 2026, I kept asking Meta AI the same question on WhatsApp: who's going to win the World Cup? Five separate times, months apart, they got an answer — odds, supercomputer percentages, a running list of favorites. Then on July 19, the real thing happened at

Andrew Ng's AI Engineering Skills Map: The 4 Skills That Actually Get You Hired in 2026

What is it The AI Engineering Skills Map is a post from Andrew Ng (DeepLearning.AI, Coursera co-founder) identifying the four skills he considers most valuable for developers working with AI today. He describes the process behind it as similar to clustering a large dataset of jobs and expert

A Beginner's Guide to Caveman: Cutting Token Costs for AI Coding Agents

If you use an AI coding agent like Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI regularly, you've probably noticed the token bill adds up fast. Every reply the model writes, every file it reads, every tool result it processes — all of it costs tokens, and tokens cost money. Caveman

A Beginner's Guide to Hindsight: Memory for AI Agents

If you've built a chatbot or an AI agent, you've probably run into the same wall everyone does: the moment a conversation ends, the AI forgets everything. Ask it about something you discussed yesterday, and it stares back blankly. That's the problem Hindsight is

top AI news - August 24–27, 2026 - Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for ~$12.9–13 billio

Roundup of the top AI news from roughly the last few days (centered on August 24–27, 2026. Major Deals & Infrastructure * Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for ~$12.9–13 billion. The deal values the open-source AI model and dataset hub at more than triple its 2023

Chatgpt vs Claude

My Thoughts on ChatGPT vs Claude for Writing: A Practical Comparison

I wanted to do a simple experiment. Instead of asking, “Which is better, ChatGPT or Claude?”, I gave both of them the same practical task: Explain prompt caching for a beginner. Then I compared the results. I wasn't trying to test which AI was “smarter.” I wanted to

Prompt caching in Claude explained simply

Prompt caching means: “Don’t make Claude read the same big instructions over and over again.” Imagine you have a 50-page instruction manual for your AI assistant. Every time you ask Claude something, normally it has to process that manual again: 📖 50-page instructions + “What is the answer to

Caveman Claude for Beginners: A Simple, No-Jargon Guide

If you've seen people talking about "caveman Claude," "caveman Codex," or "caveman Copilot" and felt lost, this guide is for you. No terminal experience needed to get started — we'll build up to that. The One-Sentence Explanation Caveman mode is

Where Is the CLAUDE.md File? Locations, Examples, and Best Practices for Claude Code

If you've started using Claude Code and keep seeing references to a mysterious "CLAUDE.md" file, you're not alone. It's the single most important configuration file in the entire Claude Code workflow — and where it lives, how many of them you can