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The Right Skills for the Job: Project-Scoped Agent Skills
Agentic AI has quickly become a dominant workflow. Give an LLM access to the filesystem and shell, provide it good instructions, and watch it work! It's that second part that is critical to making the process scalable. LLMs are quite happy to fill in the gaps…
What's My Env Again?
Almost any non-trivial project will require some amount of environment configuration. Perhaps the project uses a local Python virtual environment that must be used for running tests. Perhaps it's a hardware-design project that needs to configure the environmen…
Simplifying Access to Open-Source EDA Software
Free and Open-Source Silicon (FOSSi) hardware designs face an interesting challenge. There's a sizable and growing set of open source tools. But, obtaining the software in pre-built form -- especially the latest versions -- can be a challenge due to the numbe…
Managing DV Project Dependencies - Now with FuseSoc
I had the pleasure of attending [LatchUp](https://fossi-foundation.org/latch-up/2026) this past weekend. Conferences invariably spark new ideas and new perspectives, and this past weekend was no different. Specifically, I found a new perspective on interope…
Generate Custom Content Quickly with a Template Engine
[](/legacy-img/vte-splash.png) I was at [DVCon](https://dvcon.org/) earlier this week, and attended the UVM Update Tutorial delivered by Cliff Cummings. Cliff described his typical process of creating UVM elements, which is to have a set of 'golden' temp…