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Vibe Coding2026-09-07 · source-backed
The thread asking how people manage skills files drew 144 comments, and almost every concrete answer was a dotfile manager: chezmoi with a .agents/skills directory symlinked into .claude/skills, Nix Home Manager installing into .claude and .codex, Guix Home syncing across four harnesses (Hacker News). Several people run AI evals against skills as behavioural integration tests, and one team runs a biweekly workflow that diffs skill content against the docs and opens PRs on drift. Existing config management absorbed the category before a SaaS showed up in it, which is why only one commercial product got named in 144 comments.
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