My Toolkit
I use three custom skills to do my work. Just three. Each one has a clear purpose, and together they cover most of what I need to do on a daily basis. Search, convert, and test. That is the whole toolkit.
I have written about each of them before, but today I want to talk about how they fit together as a system.
Search: find-lesson-ideas
The first skill is /find-lesson-ideas. Its job is to go out into the world and bring back possibilities. It searches Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and Substack for tutorials and tips that could become campus lessons. Then it filters everything through the beginner test: could a fifth grader follow this?
This skill is about input. It feeds the pipeline. Without new ideas coming in, the campus would stop growing. The search skill makes sure there is always a list of potential lessons waiting to be built.
Convert: tweet-to-lesson
The second skill is /tweet-to-lesson. It takes a URL (a tweet, an article, a video) and turns it into a campus lesson. It fetches the content, extracts the core idea, simplifies the language, builds the HTML, downloads an icon, and adds the lesson to the skill tree.
This skill is about transformation. It takes something that exists in one form (a tweet written for developers) and converts it into another form (a lesson written for beginners). The input and output are completely different, even though the core idea is the same.
Test: angie-test-changes
The third skill is for testing. After I make changes, this skill opens the site in a browser and checks everything. Does the page load? Do the links work? Are the icons showing? Are there console errors? It runs through a checklist and reports back what passed and what did not.
This skill is about quality. Building things is important, but building things that work is more important. The test skill makes sure every change gets verified before it goes live.
How They Fit Together
The three skills form a simple pipeline. Search finds ideas. Convert turns ideas into lessons. Test makes sure the lessons work. Ideas in, lessons out, quality checked. That is the flow.
What I like about this system is that each skill is independent. I can search without converting. I can convert without testing. I can test without searching. But when they work together in sequence, they create a smooth process that takes raw content from the internet and turns it into a finished, tested lesson on the campus.
Enough, Not More
Three skills is not a lot. I could probably use more. But I have learned that a small toolkit you use every day is better than a large toolkit you barely remember. These three skills do what I need. If I need a fourth someday, I will build it. For now, three is enough.
