Hi HN — I'm Scott. Skillscript is a small language I built to write what I want my local agent to actually do, in a form I can read and version, instead of hoping the model gets it right each time. The itch started with something small. I wanted my NanoClaw agent to run my morning brief the same way every day. Check overnight tickets, summarize the deploy pipeline, flag anything urgent. Every session, it would re-figure out how to do this from scratch, drift a little, and cost tokens for what's basically a fixed procedure. I could put it in a system prompt or an MD skill file, but those are still instructions the model reads and reasons about every time. And I wanted it to run autonomously and then hand it to the model to reason over the data. The second thing that pushed me: I wanted to use small local models for the cheap stuff. They're capable, but if you just hand them the wheel, they wander. What I wanted was a way for the frontier model (or me) to write a specific procedure and h

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