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The weekly · Week 36 · 31 Aug – 6 Sept 2026

AI coding agents: what changed

This week: agent skills for writing, science and editorial imagery, plus a lesson on guarding an agent's dangerous permissions.

4 picks

01GitHub★ 2,986

Sepia: De-AI Writing Skill for Agents

A writing skill for Agent Skills-compatible agents, with plugins for Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build and Antigravity. It repairs narrative structure in fiction and applies venue-matched rules to professional prose.

Image: GitHub

02GitHub★ 47,682

Scientific Agent Skills Library for Research

A library of 177 ready-to-use skills that lets AI agents work on science tasks, plus 100+ scientific databases across biology, chemistry, medicine and drug discovery. Works with Claude Code and Codex.

Image: GitHub

03GitHub★ 3,343

Mono-Color: One-Ink Editorial Image Skill

A skill that generates editorial print-style images in a single ink, using warm paper tones, halftone photography, deliberate negative space and restrained typography. It helps designers working with AI agents.

Image: GitHub

Picked from public sources (GitHub, Hacker News, DEV, Lobsters, Reddit, Product Hunt) by our daily scout. Each summary uses only what the source itself says; GitHub stars are as checked on the date shown.