Should agentic skill files be elsewhere ?

[Paul Ramsey]

I am not sure what the best practice actually is on these files.
I do know I was a little nonplussed to read it and find it spelling out in specificity a development setup that… was nothing like what I do, and therefore would lead any agent I happened to use absolutely astray. 

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> On Jun 8, 2026, at 10:59 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> 
> I noticed a skills/ directory was added, containing both postgis-specific
> document and postgis-agnostic document.
> 
> The directory has no README file, but I learnt that such files are meant
> to be read by AI-based coding agents, to pass them to LLM inference
> tools as a "context".
> 
> My question is: do these files belong in the PostGIS code base ? I suspect no.
> 
> For comparison, the Gitea project uses a separate repository [1] for this,
> I'd use the same approach.
> 
> A separate repository would have a proper README and could maybe also
> have different set of skills for different scenarios, and different usage
> instructions for different tools (I find it unfair that a single tool name
> is referenced by these docs while there are a lot of tools out there).
> 
> So, what do you think about this ? I haven't found a thread in this list
> discussing this addition, so here it is.
> 
> [1] https://gitea.com/gitea/gitea-tea-skill
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