--- title: The Trouble with Skills | daily.dev description: Human and AI intelligence share a common problem: not lacking skills, but being unable to hold all relevant skills available at once. The author draws a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-trouble-with-skills-dsz3fhaqa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Trouble with Skills | daily.dev og:description: Human and AI intelligence share a common problem: not lacking skills, but being unable to hold all relevant skills available at once. The author draws a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-trouble-with-skills-dsz3fhaqa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dSz3FhaQa.png og:image:alt: The Trouble with Skills og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Trouble with Skills **[Ruby Flow](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyflow)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Human and AI intelligence share a common problem: not lacking skills, but being unable to hold all relevant skills available at once. The author draws a parallel between two Ruby tools they built — `asgard`, a Thor-based task runner using `.loki` files to externalize procedural knowledge for humans, and `gem-skill`, which generates SKILL.md files from gem documentation so AI coding assistants like Claude Code arrive pre-briefed on specific gems. Both tools address the same gap through the same discipline: write it down, put it in a file, load it when needed. `gem-skill` specifically prevents re-spending tokens teaching an AI assistant the same gem API across multiple projects by maintaining a global cache of skill files. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI skills start on laptops. 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