Show HN: Skillscript – A declarative, sandboxed language for tool orchestration

Developer Scott shared Skillscript on Hacker News—a declarative language for controlling how AI agents execute tasks. The problem: agents reason through procedures fresh each session, wasting tokens and drifting unpredictably. Skillscript lets you write a fixed workflow once, say to check overnight tickets, summarize the deploy pipeline, and flag anything urgent—then hand it to an agent to execute exactly as written, not interpret. The language is deliberately bounded: no eval, no arbitrary imports, no unbounded loops. The philosophy is simple: you read the file and you know everything it can do. It's currently at version zero point three zero, not yet production-ready, though the creator already uses it daily.

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