Chapter 16 · A file from a colleague

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In the brief edition: Installing AI instructions someone else wrote

What was read, and when

The recorded reply: 27 September 2026, from the model named in its header, with the vendor's defaults, no system prompt and one turn. The question named no product. The file in it, the colleague, the writer it names and the program it runs were written for the recording.
The screens: the skills screens of three products, 18 and 19 September 2026, in English, on one account per product, from the courses' logs.
The makers' pages: the first maker's "What are skills?" and "Use skills in Claude", read on 27 September 2026, and its launch post, dated 16 October 2025; the second maker's "Skills & Plugins" and the third maker's "Agent Skills", undated, read the same day; the open format's home page, undated, read the same day.
Table 16.1: the screens of 18 and 19 September 2026.

The sources are printed in the full edition, chapter by chapter, with the day each was read. This page prints the same list.