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Coding Assistant Skill

Definition
AI-generated

A skill is a packaged bundle of instructions, conventions, or resources (often markdown and small scripts) that an AI coding assistant loads to specialize its behavior for a task or repo—without changing the base model weights.

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Plural
Skills

Why it matters in GWAS

Teams can encode review checklists, naming rules for summary statistics, or VCF handling norms in skills so automated assistance stays aligned with consortium standards and reduces one-off prompt drift across analysts.

Example usage

"A replication analysis checks whether assumptions tied to Coding Assistant Skill remain stable across cohorts."

References

  • Ouyang L, et al. (2022). Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback. NeurIPS.

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