Your AI coding assistant doesn't know Compact. It knows TypeScript, Solidity, Rust, but Midnight's ZK smart contract language didn't exist when most models were trained. Ask it to write a Compact contract and you'll get plausible-looking code that won't compile. midnight_agent_skills is a set of 4 agent skills that fix this. Install them once, and your AI assistant has accurate knowledge of Compact syntax, the Midnight SDK, network config, and the gotchas that trip up real builders. This is a walkthrough of using those skills to build your first Midnight dApp. What are agent skills? Agent skills are structured knowledge files that AI coding assistants load at context time. Instead of relying on training data, the assistant reads the skill files directly, so it gets accurate, current information rather than hallucinated guesses.…