A Skill Isn't a Prompt. It's Documentation.

Updates on structured prompting

Jun 15 • Lance Cummings

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Start Here

An index to everything I’ve written on AI and writing

Jun 11 • Lance Cummings

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A Dead-Simple Way to Test Your Chatbot's Knowledge

Including a worksheet to help with analysis

Jun 5 • Lance Cummings

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May 2026

Every Doc Makes a Promise

Understanding the ethos of documentation in an AI world

May 25 • Lance Cummings

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What 17 Student Chatbots Showed Me About Structured Content

An informal classroom experiment with information types

May 18 • Lance Cummings

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What Does "Evidence-Based" Actually Mean for AI?

Deep Reading, Episode 9

May 11 • Lance Cummings

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10:24

Build your AI Portfolio Before Someone Asks for It

A quick exercise to get you thinking

May 1 • Lance Cummings

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April 2026

Using Information Types to Build and Evaluate Prompt Structures

Context Lab #13. A more precise approach to prompt evaluation

Apr 20 • Lance Cummings

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March 2026

Context Lab #12: Weekly Plan Skill

Applying information types to agentic skills

Mar 31 • Lance Cummings

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The Techne Behind Agent Skills

Its not just about tasks

Mar 24 • Lance Cummings

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Do Prompts Really Need Markup?

Deep Reading, Episode 8

Mar 10 • Lance Cummings

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11:03

February 2026

Context Lab #11: Writing Genre Coach

When the prompt is the easy part

Feb 23 • Lance Cummings

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