Your coding agent discovers gold every session — then throws it away

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Your coding agent spent an hour debugging a tricky auth flow yesterday. It discovered that the JWT validation in this repo differs from the standard library, that migrations must run before seeding, and that the e2e tests silently hang without Docker. Tomorrow, all of that is gone. Writing skills by hand helps — research shows human-curated skills genuinely improve agent performance. But capturing the righ

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