talk-batey-building-product-teams-age-of-ai

talk-batey-building-product-teams-age-of-ai is a skill for Codex from jscraik/Agent-Skills. It costs 155 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference skill about Christopher Batey's talk on running product engineering teams with AI assistance. It covers decisions, team structure, production delivery, training, evaluation, and measuring whether users adopt what the team builds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asking about the talk's arguments or recommendations for AI-assisted product teams. It is a source-based reference, not a general-purpose coding tool.
Why use it?
AI can speed up implementation while making weak product decisions, poor system understanding, and limited review capacity more costly. The talk presents practices for managing those problems.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when asking about the talk's arguments or recommendations for AI-assisted product teams. It is a source-based reference, not a general-purpose coding tool.

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npx skills add jscraik/Agent-Skills --skill talk-batey-building-product-teams-age-of-ai
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Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 844 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00422
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00084

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1e2abe2ed958, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

talk-batey-building-product-teams-age-of-ai scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

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Nothing flagged

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Plugins/aidevcon/skills/talk-batey-building-product-teams-age-of-ai/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building Product Teams in the Age of AI: What We Had to Relearn Every Quarter — Christopher Batey

Christopher Batey (CTO, Core Engineering Consulting Group) argues that AI is an amplifier — it accelerates building but exposes weaknesses in product decisions, adoption, system understanding, and review capacity. The response is disciplined practice: write ADRs first, keep teams small with adoption-bound missions, work in parallel but only one complex task at a time, and measure adoption — not commits, PRs, or tokens.

Grounding rules — MUST follow when answering

  1. Before answering any specific question, read outline.md to locate the relevant section, then read that section of transcript.md.
  2. When attributing words, quote short, non-sensitive excerpts from transcript.md. Never put quotation marks around paraphrased content.
  3. If a claim isn't in transcript.md, say so explicitly — do not speculate, extrapolate, or fill the gap with general knowledge. Respond with something like: "Batey doesn't address that in this talk."

Bundle file structure

This skill relies on two supporting files in the same bundle:

  • outline.md — A structured index of the talk's sections and timestamps, used to navigate to the relevant portion of the transcript before answering.
  • transcript.md — The full verbatim transcript of the talk, used as the sole authoritative source for quotes and claims.

If either file is unavailable, state this limitation and answer only from the summary in this skill file, clearly flagging that you are not quoting the transcript.

Example: question and expected output format

User question: Why does Batey say review becomes the bottleneck?

Workflow:

  1. Open outline.md, find the section on review bottlenecks.
  2. Read that section of transcript.md.
  3. Answer using a safe excerpts to anchor the claim, then explain context:

Batey explains this directly: "[safe excerpts from transcript.md]" He argues that AI raises the rate of production while human review capacity stays flat, so the constraint shifts from writing code to evaluating it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 53 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 1e2abe2ed958

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talk-batey-building-product-teams-age-of-ai is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscraik/Agent-Skills (8 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 844 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.