Skills Drift Problem

A quick lesson from sharing skills across coding agents

When you work across multiple projects, your skills decay faster than your code.

I kept copy-pasting the same skills across repos and agent-specific directories. Each project slowly drifted. Small tweaks here, forgotten updates there. I never knew which version was the real one.

The problem showed up quickly, so I fixed it at the root.

The solution I landed on was simple: centralize skills and sync them across projects. I built a small CLI to support that workflow, with a single source of truth and on-demand updates.

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Takeaway: Copy-paste works once. After that, it’s entropy with extra steps. If a skill is reusable, treat it like shared infrastructure. This applies at the local workflow level.