5 realistic interactions showing how agent-skill-creator must work
with inarticulate, messy human input — not clean specifications:
1. The File Dump — analyst drags 5 files and types "here"
2. The URL Dump — half-sentence with 2 URLs and "same thing as wasde"
3. The Screenshot + Complaint — Paint-annotated Bloomberg screenshot
and "this is ridiculous" (reveals the workflow was unnecessary —
data already existed in Databricks)
4. The Forwarded Email — 6-message chain with legal disclaimers,
agent extracts the one useful paragraph from Oliver in London
5. The One Word — analyst types "freight", agent infers from desk
context, Databricks catalog, and colleague skills
Closes with 6 design principles: file interpretation over requirements
gathering, context inference, progressive refinement, discovery over
assumption, confirm don't interrogate, fail forward not fail safe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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