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Show HN: Smidge. Turn expert knowledge into agent intelligence

https://www.smdg.app/
1•junianwoo•1h ago
Smidge (smdg.app) takes source material and produces production-ready skills compatible with the open Agent Skills spec. Works with Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and 30+ AI agents.

The core idea: your agents should have the same expertise you do, without you manually writing SKILL.md files.

How it works:

Drop source material (YouTube, PDFs, audio, docs, slides, up to 50MB each, multiple sources at once)

Source-aware extraction: transcripts get distilled, papers keep structure, slides get expanded

Automatic skill catalogues: a textbook or manual becomes multiple focused, topic-specific skills

Every skill validated against the Agent Skills spec Download individual skills or full catalogues

CLI: npm i -g smdg-cli smdg generate --source ./docs/brand-guide.pdf

Tech: Next.js, Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Storage), Claude API for extraction, Stripe for payments.

Two free generations. Credit packs start at $9 for 5 skills. $19/mo unlimited.

I built this because I wanted my coding agents to have domain expertise from my existing materials. The extraction engine is source-aware: it adjusts its strategy based on whether it's processing a transcript, an academic paper, a framework doc, or a slide deck. For large inputs, it automatically detects distinct topics and produces a catalogue of focused skills instead of one monolithic file. Happy to answer technical questions about the extraction pipeline or the Agent Skills spec.

Comments

DoesWork1•1h ago
It would be nice if it worked.Its constantly stuck on the last step?

"Skill Generated "RadarGod" is ready to use.

11,619 words extracted Generating SKILL.md... Fetching source files... Extracted 11,681 words from ee259_04_radar.pdf 11619 words extracted from 1 source(s)"

junianwoo•1h ago
Ah thats a bug im trying to fix. refresh your page. should be there
junianwoo•1h ago
Just checked. Seems to be working fine. Might take a long time if it's a big file.
DoesWork1•24m ago
Nope, it is still not working and now I have no credits left. Both attempts failed. not sure why a 44mb PDF would be considered a "big file" its only 11,000 extracted words.

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