Year 1: Ship features in days. Year 3: Same features take weeks. Year 5: You're afraid to touch anything.
Sound familiar? What if your codebase could maintain constant velocity regardless of size? That's the promise of black box architecture—and now you can teach your AI assistant to think this way automatically.
Claude Skills are reusable, versionable “capsules” of task-specific instructions plus optional files and scripts that Claude can load on demand across Claude.ai, Claude Code, the API, and the Claude Agent SDK. They’re built as simple folders (with a SKILL.md manifest) that encode your team’s procedures and resources so Claude can act consistently in your real workflows. Skills are rolling out for paid plans (Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise) and can be enabled by admins for org-wide use.
I’m a dinosaur developer, and honestly, I wasn’t that into AI-coding until now.
Imagine coding with an AI partner that doesn’t just write code, but helps you plan, debug, and automate your workflow—all within VS Code. That’s Kilocode: a lightning-fast, open-source AI agent built to boost productivity, whether you’re just starting out or already deep in the dev world.