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Prompt-engineering

Hallmark Architecture: How Do You Stop Designs From Looking 'AI-Generated' — With a Prompt?

Hallmark is Together AI’s anti-AI-slop design skill. It ships almost no executable code — its entire intelligence lives in 106 markdown files. This piece dissects the SKILL.md router and its progressive context loading, the narrowing decision pipeline, and — at its center — the 58 slop-test gates, contrasting it with skill-injecting projects like Superpowers and SkillSpector.

Analyzing ponytail: How Does a Skill That Makes Agents "Write Less Code" Ship to 16 Agents?

ponytail packs a single discipline — the "lazy senior dev" laziness ladder — into one SKILL.md and ships it to 16 agents via every mechanism (skill, hook, command, MCP, plugin), proving a ~54% code cut with a real agentic benchmark. We analyze it against Superpowers, and the idea that a skill is a bundle of discipline, distribution, and measurement rather than code.