Vibe Check: New Skill Unlocked with Vercel

In this livestream, Donald (AI Foundations engineer at Temporal) and Mark Biza (DX engineer at Vercel) join us for a Vibe Check on skills—what they are, how to build them, and what they unlock for AI-assisted development. Donald previews the upcoming Temporal Agent Skill and live-demos it in Claude Code, while Mark walks through skills.sh, the distribution platform Vercel built to share skills across agents and teams.

We go beyond the surface and explore:
* What Claude Code skills actually are—markdown files with YAML frontmatter that give coding agents structured, domain-specific context
* Why skills matter: how they guide agents past incomplete or inaccurate training data toward real best practices
* How the Temporal Agent Skill is structured—a shared core for cross-language concepts plus language-specific folders for Python, TypeScript, Go, and more
* A live demo: Claude Code building a durable payment workflow using the Saga pattern—unprompted—because it was encoded in the skill
* Why being able to run and iterate on workflow code (not just write it) is the key unlock for agents debugging Temporal apps
* How skills.sh works—installation via `npx skills add owner/repo`, the leaderboard, auditing, and community contributions
* Vercel's Chat SDK skill and how it scaffolds agents for Slack, Discord, Teams, and WhatsApp
* Using skills outside of code—marketing, SEO, copywriting, and motion graphics with Remotion
* Skills vs. MCP: why the future likely uses both together, and where each fits
* The case for skill cross-dependencies and skill bundles—a feature Donald and Mark noodle on live

If you're building on Temporal, experimenting with Claude Code, or trying to understand how to give your coding agents better guardrails and domain knowledge, this episode is for you.

The Temporal Agent Skill is launching next week—look for it on skills.sh.

Resources:
* Temporal Agent Skills repo | https://github.com/temporalio/skill-temporal-developer/tree/dev
* skills.sh | https://skills.sh/
* Vercel Agent Resources & Skills | https://vercel.com/docs/agent-resources/skills
* Temporal with AI | https://docs.temporal.io/with-ai
* Temporal for AI | https://temporal.io/solutions/ai
* Temporal Community Slack (share your skill feedback here) | https://temporal.io/slack

Drop your questions below and let us know what you want us to build with skills next.

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