Skill Stack

The meta-skill for the AI age: teaching people how to work with AI, not be replaced by it.

What is Skill Stack?

Skill Stack is a newsletter and skills marketplace about context engineering—the art of teaching AI what you know so it can work the way you think.

Core thesis: Model intelligence is no longer the limit. Your ability to engineer context is.

The Author

Charlie Deist (@chdeist)

• Head of Content at OpenEd
• Producer for the Naval Podcast
• Author of "Commanding the Page"

Stack

• Frontend: React + Vite + TypeScript
• Database: Convex (real-time sync)
• Hosting: Railway
• Newsletter: AgentMail
• Domain: skillstack.md

Local Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start dev server (uses dev Convex deployment)
npm run dev

# Sync content to Convex
npm run sync

# Sync to production
SYNC_ENV=production npx tsx scripts/sync-posts.ts

Project Structure

skill-stack/
├── content/
│   ├── blog/          # 38 blog posts
│   └── pages/         # About, Contact
├── src/               # React app
├── convex/            # Backend functions
├── scripts/           # Sync & image scripts
├── public/
│   └── images/thumbnails/  # Blog thumbnails
└── .claude/
    ├── CLAUDE.md      # Project context
    └── skills/        # 22+ content skills

Skills

The .claude/skills/ folder contains production-tested skills for content transformation:

• voice-matching-wizard - Analyze and match writing voice
• transcript-polisher - Clean up raw transcripts
• image-prompt-generator - Generate thumbnails with Gemini
• anti-ai-writing - Remove AI tells from prose
• podcast-blog-post-creator - Transform episodes to posts

License

MIT