Large language models are increasingly extensible. Whether they’re called “skills,” “plugins,” “tools,” or “MCP servers,” the core idea is the same: let an LLM invoke external code, read external data, and act on external instructions. It’s also one of the most serious attack surfaces in modern AI systems. Table Of Contents What’s the problem? Prompt […]

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The ecosystem of “AI skills” — modular instruction packs that extend an LLM with task-specific know-how, whether they’re called Skills, plugins, agents, MCP servers, system-prompt templates, or tool bundles — has exploded fast enough that “which one should I use?” has become the dominant question. The answer is rarely obvious from a README, and almost […]

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SpotBugs is a program to find bugs in Java programs. It looks for instances of “bug patterns” — code instances that are likely to be errors. It uses static analysis to look for bugs in Java code. SpotBugs checks for more than 400 bug patterns. Bug descriptions can be found here. It is free software, […]

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