Don't Ship Agent Skills Without Evals: Philipp Schmid's Testing Method and SkillsBench
If you use a coding agent like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or Codex, you eventually end up writing skills: Markdown files that hand the agent your team’s coding conventions, a specific SDK’s usage patterns, or a deployment procedure. The problem is that almost nobody tests them. We would never ship code without tests, yet skills, which directly change how an agent behaves, get shipped after a few manual runs and a gut-level “looks fine.”
Read MoreTradingAgents: Reading the Paper and Code Behind an LLM Trading Desk
Up front: this is not investment advice, and nothing here recommends buying or selling anything. It is a read of how you organize LLM agents into a single decision, looked at from the research and the code. Trading is just the domain the design happens to target.
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