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Building diderot: skills in real OCI registries, one prompt at a time (part 2)

Second chapter of diderot's MAKING-OF.md, lightly edited for the blog. Part one got a "Helm for AI agent skills" as far as installing from git with a content-digest lockfile. This one makes an OCI registry a first-class source - the gap that justified the project in the first place - and ends with a skill published by a GitHub Action and installed into an unrelated project that had never heard of diderot. The code landed in diderot#5, the closing act in diderot#8.

Building diderot: a package manager for AI agent skills, one prompt at a time (part 1)

Second chapter of diderot's MAKING-OF.md, lightly edited for the blog. Part one got a "Helm for AI agent skills" as far as installing from git with a content-digest lockfile. This one makes an OCI registry a first-class source - the gap that justified the project in the first place - and ends with a skill published by a GitHub Action and installed into an unrelated project that had never heard of diderot. The code landed in diderot#5, the closing act in diderot#8.

Building a Gift Card Management App with GitHub Copilot: My First Completed Side Project

Note: A 🇫🇷 French version of this post is available on Sciam's blog (my employer). Like many developers, my life is littered with unfinished side projects. But this time was different. This time, I had GitHub Copilot as my coding companion, and I actually finished. Let me tell you how AI-assisted development helped me build a gift card management application that I actually use every day — and I did it almost entirely without opening an IDE.