DEV Community: Rupesh Sreeraman

🚀 Learn AI Agent Skills - A Beginner’s Guide (with Best Practices)

Rupesh Sreeraman — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:54:48 +0000

I just published a beginner-friendly guide that breaks down AI Agent Skills — what they are, how they work, and best practices to use them effectively. It’s built to help developers move from theory to practical workflows with these powerful modular capabilities that extend AI agents.

In the article I cover:

💡 What Agent Skills are — how they act like plug-ins that give AI agents new task-specific abilities (similar to plugins/extensions) and help agents discover, load, and apply knowledge on demand.
🛠️ Skill folder structure — what belongs in a skill (like SKILL.md, scripts, assets) and how agents use it.
📐 Best practices for writing clear, reusable skills that work in real applications.
🧠 When to use agent skills vs prompts or other tooling — and why modular skills matter for scalable agent systems.

If you’re exploring AI agents, building tools around LLMs, or just curious about how agents can go beyond simple chat and actually execute structured tasks, this guide will give you a solid foundation.

👉 Check it out here:
https://nolowiz.com/agent-skills-complete-beginners-guide-to-ai-agent-skills-and-best-practices/

Hope you find it helpful — would love to hear what skills you’re experimenting with! 🚀

Fast stable diffusion on CPU 1.0.0 beta for Windows and Linux

Rupesh Sreeraman — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 02:11:46 +0000

I have created the FastSDCPU app, able to generate fast stable diffusion images using the CPU.
Took 21 seconds to generate a single 512x512 image on Core i7-12700

Features

Supports 256,512,768 image sizes
Supports Windows and Linux
Saves images
Settings to control, steps, guidance, seed

Sources and release

Feel free to checkout the project : FastSD CPU

ShortGPT for Free

Rupesh Sreeraman — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:10:11 +0000

I would like to introduce 🧠ShortGPT's basic web version, it is free ✨. You can ask questions and get short and concise answers!

ShortGPT is software/app based on OpenAI’s large language model GPT-3/GPT-4 to get short and concise answers.

For more settings, you can use :

ShortGPT CLI
ShortGPT GUI Windows/Linux
ShortGPT Android App

You can try basic web version for free

ShortGPT Lite

Rupesh Sreeraman — Wed, 31 May 2023 15:20:25 +0000

I'm happy to share my new desktop application ShortGPT lite. It is a GUI for my ShortGPT CLI project.

Features

Get short and concise answers from GPT 3/GPT 4
You can use any one of the GPT model (gpt-4, gpt-4-0314, gpt-4-32k, gpt-4-32k-0314, gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-3.5-turbo-0301)
The default model is gpt-3.5-turbo
Cost-effective
Render as markdown or plain text
Long mode support, output text more than 50 words

Releases and Source code

Windows and Linux releases available for the download.
ShortGPT Lite GitHub repo

ShortGPT

Rupesh Sreeraman — Sun, 07 May 2023 09:55:31 +0000

Sharing my new app - shortgpt.

ShortGPT is a command-line application for GPT3/GPT4, written in rust programming.

Features

Ask shortgpt for instant and concise answers
Add shortgpt to PATH environment and use it as command
You can use any one of the GPT model (gpt-4, gpt-4-0314, gpt-4-32k, gpt-4-32k-0314, gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-3.5-turbo-0301)
Default model is gpt-3.5-turbo
Cost effective
Use -l to enable long text mode

Source code and binaries.

Source code and releases