2026-04-27 — Skills in Action

Demos

• Jim Birch: Intro to Agent Skills, CMS Cultivator collection of both WordPress + Drupal skills for an agency
  • Watch talk | Watch demo | ⚙️ View repo | 🖼️ View slides 
• Eduardo Telaya: Demo of coding agent before/after Drupal AI skills
  • Watch clip | ⚙️ View repo | 🖼️ View slides (todo!)

Quick recap

The Drupal AI Learners Club held a session focused on "Skills in Action," where presenters demonstrated how to use AI skills in practical development workflows. Jim Birch explained the fundamentals of agent skills, including their structure as markdown files with YAML front matter and descriptions that trigger their execution. Eduardo then demonstrated his Drupal AI project, which includes 35+ skills designed to catch common coding mistakes in Drupal projects, by showing how it could correctly generate proper Drupal service injection and hook implementations. The session included discussions about best practices for sharing and managing skills across teams, with participants noting the need for a separate discussion about workflow management for skills across different platforms and projects.

Link Dump

Agent Skills — Specification & Directories

• Agent Skills specification (agentskills.io) — shared in response to a question about whether SKILLS.md is tied to Claude Code; it's a general standard.
• skills.sh (filtered for "drupal") — a directory for finding existing skills.
• Jim Birch's presentation resources (named in chat without URLs): Skills in ChatGPT, OpenAI Developers Agent Skills, Claude Code Skills, Claude API Agent Skills, Anthropic Official Skills, Agent Skills Docs, Agent Skills Directory.

Drupal AI Best Practices & Core Discussion

• AI Best Practices project on Drupal.org — the consolidation effort for Drupal-specific skills.
• Issue #3585585 — current thinking on where skills should live (module-related skills in modules, general best practices in ai_best_practices).
• Drupal core issue #3585894 — discussion of an initial AGENTS.md to curtail maintainer burnout from AI contributions.

Demos & Tools Shown

• Drupal Activity Summary (WIP) by Nick Opris — also linked as the routed version.
• CMS Cultivator — Jim Birch's Claude Code/Codex plugin shown during the presentation.
• harsh-critic — referenced in the side conversation about "pushy language" in prompts.
• AgentOS — flagged by Jacob Rockowitz as something to be aware of in the skills space.

Drupal Events & Camps

• Stanford Web Camp — and Luke McCormick's session: Agile for Agents: Managing Robots the Way We Manage Humans.
• MidCamp
• DrupalCamp Ottawa — and the relevant session: Pair Programming with Claude: From Custom Skills to a Published Contrib Module.
• Drupal AI Summit — New York City
• DrupalCon recordings playlist on YouTube

Other References

• Git commit message format guide by dww — shared in the side conversation about commit messages.
• LinkedIn post on AI agent security (2026) — Stephen Musgrave's reminder not to let FOMO drive irresponsible implementation.