About this video

• Video Title: Antigravity Skills are a Cheat Code (NEW System)
• Channel: Jack Roberts
• Speakers: Jack Roberts
• Duration: 21:32

Overview

This video provides a beginner's guide to using "anti-gravity skills" within a new system, explaining how they can be used to build things faster and to a higher standard. The presenter, Jack Roberts, compares these skills to Claude skills, highlighting their differences and benefits, such as repeatability, context window savings, and scalability. The video demonstrates the creation and application of five key skills, including a skill creator, brand design, brainstorming, error handling, and script execution.

Key takeaways

• Anti-gravity skills are a "cheat code": They allow users to build things faster and with better quality by providing reusable packages of knowledge and instructions.
• Benefits of anti-gravity skills: These skills make processes repeatable, consistent, save context window usage, and are sharable and scalable.
• Comparison to Claude skills: While Claude skills focus on knowledge, anti-gravity skills emphasize automation and can directly execute code.
• Skill creation process: Skills can be created for various purposes, such as onboarding, database migrations, competitive intelligence, and design protocols. They can be triggered via natural language.
• Five key skills demonstrated:
  1. Skill Creator: Enables the creation of other skills.
  2. Brand Design: Helps create consistent designs based on brand guidelines.
  3. Brainstorming & Planning: Facilitates better idea generation and project planning.
  4. Error Handling: Assists in troubleshooting and fixing application errors.
  5. Script Execution: Allows for the running of code directly within a skill, demonstrated with a subreddit scraper.
• Update on Free Plan Quotas: For free plan users, quotas now reset weekly instead of every 5 hours.

Table

Topic	Tags
AI Tools & Platforms	Anti-gravity, Google AI, Claude AI, Gemini
AI Skill Development	Skill creation, Custom AI skills, AI automation, Prompt engineering
Productivity & Workflow	Workflow automation, Efficiency, Repeatable processes, AI for business
Software Development	Coding, Scripting, Error handling, Debugging, AI in development
Design & Branding	Brand design, Graphic design, AI for designers, Design consistency
AI Community & Resources	AI communities, Open-source AI, AI best practices, Collaboration
Future of AI	AI advancements, AI integration, AI applications

Here's a structured breakdown of the video transcript:

00:00:00 - Introduction

• Google's anti-gravity skills have been released and are described as a "cheat code" if used correctly.
• The video aims to provide a beginner's guide to anti-gravity skills for faster and better quality building.
• It will cover comparisons to Claude skills, key updates, and practical skill demonstrations.
• The speaker, Jack Roberts, shares his background in tech startups and AI automation.

00:04:02 - AntiGravity Skills

• Anti-gravity skills offer benefits like repeatability, consistency, saving context window usage, and scalability.
• Skills are defined as reusable packages of knowledge that extend agent capabilities, including instructions, best practices, and optional scripts/resources.

00:04:22 - Skill 1: Anti-gravity Skills Creator

• Demonstrates creating a skill that can generate other skills.
• The process involves using anti-gravity's interface to prompt the creation of a "Gemini skill creator."
• Highlights that anti-gravity is an "agent-first" environment, allowing for natural language interaction to create skills.
• Key components of a good skill include naming, description, when it's used, review checklists, and feedback mechanisms.

00:12:20 - Skill 2: Brand Design

• Addresses the need for consistency in design, especially when using models like Gemini for visual creation.
• The skill uses a framework that goes beyond basic brand elements, incorporating color, fonts, and copywriting guidelines.
• Demonstrates using a tool (vcrol.dev playground) to extract branding information from a website and applying it to create a consistent design.
• Includes uploading logo files as reference.
• A test case creates an HTML landing page based on brand guidelines.

00:14:10 - Skill 3: Brainstorming and Planning

• Emphasizes the importance of the planning stage in AI interactions, drawing a parallel to Claude Co's success.
• Introduces skills for brainstorming and planning to improve output quality.
• Leverages a GitHub repository containing these skills.
• Demonstrates creating skills for "planning" and "brainstorming" within anti-gravity.
• A test case uses the brainstorming skill to generate ideas for growing an e-commerce business.

00:15:32 - Skill 4: Error Handling

• Addresses the inevitability of bugs and the need for troubleshooting.
• Highlights a skill designed to master error handling patterns across languages.
• The skill covers exceptions, result types, error propagation, and graceful handling.
• The process involves importing the skill from a GitHub repository into anti-gravity.

00:20:39 - Skill 5: Running Scripts (Reddit Scraper)

• Focuses on creating skills that can execute code directly.
• Demonstrates creating a "scraper" skill to fetch the top posts from any chosen subreddit.
• The skill is validated to work, using the old Reddit interface to avoid API dependencies.
• The script is then codified into an anti-gravity skill using the skill creator.
• A test case asks the skill to scrape the "singularity" subreddit, which the system successfully does by leveraging the created skill and its embedded Python script.
• Discusses token usage and how skills help manage it compared to less optimized methods.

Updates and Conclusion

• Anti-gravity Plan Update: Free plan quotas now reset weekly, not every 5 hours. This change does not affect paid plans.
• Value of Anti-gravity: The platform is praised for providing access to various Claude models and its overall effectiveness.
• Next Steps: The video concludes by encouraging viewers to learn how to leverage these skills to build a personal operating system for background automation.