Intro to Agent Skills at Cal Poly Pomona AI Fair & Hackathon
About the Event
In this session for the participants of the Cal Poly Pomona AI Fair and Hackathon 2026, they’ll learn how to transform repeatable workflows into AI Agent Skills: modular, reusable instruction sets that guide AI through complex multi-step tasks. These skills help you structure prompts, automate reasoning steps, and accelerate building.
We’ll walk through the full design process: mapping workflows visually before writing anything, how progressive disclosure helps you manage AI context, creating user-configurable settings, and packaging skills that follow the emerging Agent Skills standard.
To bring it all together, we’ll build a simple AI skill live from scratch that participants can immediately apply to their own hackathon projects.
Key Topics Covered
- No-code AI agents and skills
- Workflow-to-skill design
- Progressive context management
- Reusable AI instruction patterns
- Live AI skill creation
About the Presenter
Marcelo Lewin, Founder @ iBuildWith.ai
Marcelo is the founder of iBuildWith.ai and a Principal Content Architect and Builder at Cigna. He has over 30 years of experience in the tech industry. Having lived through the computer, internet, and mobile revolutions, he is now excited and focused on navigating the AI revolution by helping non-developers build real applications using AI. He founded several startups and held roles at various companies including Toyota, NBC, J.F. Shea, and Walt Disney Imagineering.