ai-chat
GitHub指导优化 Windmill AI 聊天（Copilot）全局模式，涵盖工具、提示词及上下文窗口管理。强调变更前后需进行 A/B 评估，优化上下文占用，并规范工具参数与返回结果以减少开销。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add windmill-labs/windmill --skill ai-chat -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "ai-chat",
"description": "Guidance for improving the Windmill AI chat (copilot), especially global mode — tools, prompts, and context-window discipline. Use when editing chat tools, system prompts, or tool-result shapes under frontend\/src\/lib\/components\/copilot\/chat, or when changing how the chat manages its context window."
}
Always benchmark before and after
No context or behavior change ships without an ai_evals A/B on the affected mode.
Add or adjust cases for exactly what you changed — see the ai-evals skill for
authoring and the full run reference.
Run the affected mode before your change and after, same model(s), same cases.
Measure the window first, and cumulative second
Optimize finalContextTokens (window occupancy — what drives overflow and
compaction), then cumulative prompt tokens.
Context discipline
The dominant fixed cost is per-iteration overhead: the system prompt plus every tool schema is re-sent on every loop iteration. So:
- Every tool and every parameter is a permanent tax. Justify each one and measure it; an extra "locate" round-trip can cost more than the reads it saves. Strip dead params rather than leaving them in the schema.
- Tool results return the minimum. Never echo content the model already has. The
canonical mistake: a write tool that returns the whole edited artifact right after
the model authored it — return
{ success, message }instead. When you touch a shared write helper (e.g.finishAppDraftWriteinglobal/core.ts), re-check this invariant for all the write tools routing through it — the echo has regressed before via a shared refactor.
Prompts and tool descriptions are part of the surface
The system prompt and tool descriptions steer behavior as much as the tools themselves, and are benchmarkable the same way. A description that advertises truncation makes the model self-limit; the path-conventions block changes where drafts land. Treat prompt/description edits as real changes and A/B them — a pure-prompt change is a legitimate, measurable improvement.
Version History
- 574775d Current 2026-08-20 17:31
