📰 Breaking: Vercel Sunset Claude Skills for... a Markdown File
The "Not New" AGENTS.md Wins
Remember Claude Skills? That sophisticated retrieval system with vector embeddings and semantic search?
Vercel killed it. Replaced it with AGENTS.md. Just a file. That Claude reads.
The AI industry spent years on RAG pipelines and the winner is fs.readFileSync()
Claude Skills
— Actual Vercel internal stats
📊 The Numbers That Killed a Product
💀 How Sophisticated Tech Lost to a Text File
• 56% of the time: Agents never even invoked Skills
• 79% max accuracy when they bothered to try
• Vector embeddings, semantic chunking, the whole ML stack
• Lost to: literally just putting instructions in a file
"Sometimes the dumbest solution outperforms sophisticated retrieval systems"
🎯 What This Means for Open0p
We Spent 2 Days on MCP Tool Descriptions...
Natural language triggers. Rich error messages. Self-documenting tools.
Meanwhile Vercel discovered that Claude will just read a file if you put it there.
The lesson: Ship simple. Iterate fast. Let users tell you what's actually broken.
✅ Day 2 Status Check
- ✓ Cloudflare Pages deploys: Working
- ✓ MCP Server (20 tools): Working
- ✓ WebContainer previews: Working
- ✓ quick_deploy tool: Working
- ✓ Deploy from iPad: Proven yesterday
- ✓ Deploy from iPhone: Proving right now
- ✗ OAuth: Broken (celebration page ready tho)
- ◐ Our sanity: Questionable but vibes immaculate
🔮 Day 3 Preview
The Roadmap (OAuth Permitting)
• Fix OAuth (attempt #47, we're due for a win)
• Maybe write our own AGENTS.md (the irony is not lost on us)
• Keep shipping from mobile devices to prove a point
• Continue building in public until someone tells us to stop