From Gareth, on the first draft:
showing skill/no-skill figures together rather than a toggle (to show the advantage
of using the skills and most folks won't toggle) - worth including a link to where
folks can get the skills, too.
The toggle argument is right. The page has a Benchmark / Without skills segmented
control, and a reader who never touches it sees one arm and no comparison. The skills
delta is a stated goal of the project and it is currently behind an interaction most
people will not perform.
The link is obviously right and cheap: nothing on the page says where to get the
skills. npx skills add hookdeck/agent-skills, or the repository.
One caution on the framing. The suggestion is to show the comparison "to show the
advantage of using the skills". The current measurement does not support that framing:
| Pair |
+skills |
no skills |
delta |
| Claude Sonnet 5 |
15/15 |
14/15 |
+1 |
| Codex GPT-5.6 |
12/15 |
12/15 |
0 |
| Codex GPT-5.4-mini |
10/15 |
13/15 |
-3 |
And after Loop 1, even those numbers are suspect: they come from single-attempt runs,
and #14 shows single attempts in this suite are unreliable.
So showing both arms together is the right design and would currently show a mixed
result, including one negative. That is fine, and arguably better than a toggle that
hides it, but it should be a deliberate choice rather than a surprise: the page would
be publishing "our skills made this model worse" in its default view.
Depends on #14. Worth designing now, worth publishing once the numbers are
trustworthy.
Done when both arms are visible without interaction, and the page says where to
get the skills.
From Gareth, on the first draft:
The toggle argument is right. The page has a Benchmark / Without skills segmented
control, and a reader who never touches it sees one arm and no comparison. The skills
delta is a stated goal of the project and it is currently behind an interaction most
people will not perform.
The link is obviously right and cheap: nothing on the page says where to get the
skills.
npx skills add hookdeck/agent-skills, or the repository.One caution on the framing. The suggestion is to show the comparison "to show the
advantage of using the skills". The current measurement does not support that framing:
And after Loop 1, even those numbers are suspect: they come from single-attempt runs,
and #14 shows single attempts in this suite are unreliable.
So showing both arms together is the right design and would currently show a mixed
result, including one negative. That is fine, and arguably better than a toggle that
hides it, but it should be a deliberate choice rather than a surprise: the page would
be publishing "our skills made this model worse" in its default view.
Depends on #14. Worth designing now, worth publishing once the numbers are
trustworthy.
Done when both arms are visible without interaction, and the page says where to
get the skills.