6 Skill Files for AI
While AI tools like Posit Assistant and Claude Code are perfectly capable of reading this book and learning from it, the following skill files distill that content, and much more from the SSCC’s website, down to just the information it needs to help you use the SSCC’s computing resources. Using these skill files will consume fewer tokens than telling your AI tool to read our documentation meant for humans (and often beginners).
Skill file for the SSCC General Environment
Skill file for the SSCC Silo Environment
These are zip files: you’ll need to download them, unzip them, and then put the folder they contain in a location where your AI tool will find them–it can tell you where. Ideally the tool will recognize when a skill is relevant, but you may need to tell it to load the skill explicitly before it will use the information it contains.
Of course we’re all new to this, so if you have any feedback after using these skill files in practice we want to hear it.
You are responsible for all the code that carries out your research, no matter who or what writes it. All research code needs to be checked, no matter who or what writes it. That means you need to be able to read it. Using AI can reduce the amount of time you spend writing code, and when it works well it’s pretty great. It does not eliminate the need to learn to code.