you could for example create a skill to access your database for testing purposes and pass in your tables specifications so that the agent can easily retrieve data for you on the fly.
It is still worse as it consumes more context giving instructions for custom tooling whereas the LLM already understands how to connect to and query a read-only SQL service with standard tools
it’s also for (typically) longer context you don’t always want the agent to have in its context. if you always want it in context, use rules (memories)
but if it’s something more involved or less frequently used (perhaps some debugging methodology, or designing new data schemas) skills are probably a good fit
one thing that I am missing from the specification is a way to inject specific variables into the skills. If I create let's say a postgres-skill, then I can either (1) provide the password on every skill execution or (2) hardcode the password into my script. To make this really useful there needs to be some kind of secret storage that the agent can read/write. This would also allow me as a programmer to sell the skills that I create more easily to customers.
I am thinking of distributing skills that I build to my clients. As my clients are mostly non-technical users I need this process of distribution to be as easy as possible. Even adding a .env file would probably be too much for most of them. With skills I can now finally distribute my logic easily, just send the raw files and tell them to put it into a folder - done. But there is no easy way for them to "setup" the credentials in those skills yet. The best UX in my opinion would be for Codex (or Claude, doesn't matter) to ask for those setup-parameters once when first using the skill and process the inputs in a secure manner, i.e. some internal secret storage
after testing it for a little I am pretty disappointed. While I do get 90 token per second out of it from my M4 Pro which is more than enough for a real world use case, the quality is just not there. I gave it a codebase that it should analyze and answer me some questions and it started hallucinating right away. No replacement for a "real" coding agent - maybe for other agentic work like sorting emails though.
A share button is pretty high on the priority list, as that's what musicians in bands would need the most.
As for libraries of charts, there are many other apps that do that very well already! I wanted to focus on fast editing of charts for musicians writing original songs, who are not really served that well by other apps at the moment.
No, I am from germany. Also good job on programming a game that plays flawlessly on pretty much all systems after so much time. Also, online play via IP address was super easy.
Great update. Unfortunately, the limitation of push notifications to 10 members puts it into the B- category of self-hosted OSS for me. I understand that costs do exist by providing a push service, but forcing Orgs into the same plan as everyone else kind of feels like it's an intentionally set boundary to lurk people in and then force them to go all-in. I'd much rather see another tier that only includes the cost for push notifications.
E: just checked and they did update their pricing to be 3,50 now for the unlimited push. It's better, but still per-user-based. Which is still bad IMO. It says "Support Zulip's open-source development". I'd happily do that with a fixed price or an honest per-push price.
