Sébastien Rigaux

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Prompt Engineering

Designing instructions and context to guide model responses and actions.

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prompts.chat brings together community prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other assistants, alongside an interactive book on prompt engineering. The repository also provides a CLI, a Claude Code plugin, and an MCP server for using prompts across different tools.

For a team, self-hosting provides a private prompt library with custom branding and authentication configured by the setup wizard. The integration examples range from npx prompts.chat to a remote MCP connection, without requiring a single access method.

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PostHog shares practical guidance for writing skills that help agents without locking them into a brittle workflow. The core idea is to load context progressively, define the goal and constraints, then let the agent choose steps that fit the repository and runtime environment.

The article also addresses maintenance: separate durable structure from fast-changing details, point to a single source of truth, and regenerate skills instead of patching them indefinitely. Skills carry context and upkeep costs, so they make most sense for recurring tasks where agents lack essential context or perform poorly by default.

Ian VanagasFound via JavaScript Weekly

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Refero Styles: AI-ready design system library

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Preview of the Refero Styles website style library

Refero Styles offers a browsable collection of over 2,000 design systems from well-known product sites, each paired with a DESIGN.md file readable by AIs like Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT. The tool lets you inspect colors, typography, spacing, and components, then reuse these styles in your own projects or AI prompts. It’s a practical resource to give visual context to an assistant or speed up interface design inspired by market references.

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