Vibe Check: New Skill Unlocked with Vercel & Temporal

Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/CXSHANydwigIn this livestream, Donald (AI Foundations engineer at Temporal) and Mark Biza (DX engineer at Vercel) join us for a Vibe Check on skills — what they are, how to build them, and what they unlock for AI-assisted development. Donald previews the upcoming Temporal Agent Skill and live-demos it in Claude Code, while Mark walks through skills.sh, the distribution platform Vercel built to share skills across agents and teams.We go beyond the surface and explore:What Claude Code skills actually are — markdown files with YAML frontmatter that give coding agents structured, domain-specific contextWhy skills matter: how they guide agents past incomplete or inaccurate training data toward real best practicesHow the Temporal Agent Skill is structured — a shared core for cross-language concepts plus language-specific folders for Python, TypeScript, Go, and moreA live demo: Claude Code building a durable payment workflow using the Saga pattern — unprompted — because it was encoded in the skillWhy being able to run and iterate on workflow code (not just write it) is the key unlock for agents debugging Temporal appsHow skills.sh works — installation via npx skills add owner/repo, the leaderboard, auditing, and community contributionsVercel's Chat SDK skill and how it scaffolds agents for Slack, Discord, Teams, and WhatsAppUsing skills outside of code — marketing, SEO, copywriting, and motion graphics with RemotionSkills vs. MCP: why the future likely uses both together, and where each fitsThe case for skill cross-dependencies and skill bundles — a feature Donald and Mark noodle on liveIf you're building on Temporal, experimenting with Claude Code, or trying to understand how to give your coding agents better guardrails and domain knowledge, this episode is for you.The Temporal Agent Skill is launching next week — look for it on skills.sh.Resources:Temporal Agent Skills repo: https://github.com/temporalio/skill-temporal-developer/tree/devskills.sh: https://skills.sh/Vercel Agent Resources & Skills: https://vercel.com/docs/agent-resources/skillsTemporal with AI: https://docs.temporal.io/with-aiTemporal for AI: https://temporal.io/solutions/aiTemporal Community Slack (share your skill feedback here): https://temporal.io/slackOriginally streamed March 13, 2026 on Vibe Check Temporal YouTube channel and you can watch the full episode at: https://www.youtube.com/live/CXSHANydwig