[theptip]

> AI-native. No installation wizard; Claude Code guides setup. No monitoring dashboard; ask Claude what's happening. No debugging tools; describe the problem, Claude fixes it.

> Skills over features. Contributors shouldn't add features (e.g. support for Telegram) to the codebase. Instead, they contribute claude code skills like /add-telegram that transform your fork.

I’m interested to see how this model pans out. I can see benefits (don’t carry complexity you don’t need) and costs (how do I audit the generated code?).

But it seems pretty clear that things will move in this direction in ‘26 with all the vibe coding that folks are enjoying.

I do wonder if the end state is more like a very rich library of composable high-order abstractions, with Skills for how to use them - rather than raw skills with instructions for how to lossily reconstruct those things.

[charcircuit]

I think the more interesting question is were tools the right abstraction. What is the implication of having only a single "shell" tool. Should the infinite possibilities to few happen by the AI having limited tools or should whatever the shell calls have the limitations applied there. Tools in a way are redundant.