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📄 Skill files: Plain-language instruction sets that give AI the architectural rules, formula patterns, and naming conventions of a seasoned Coda expert.🧱 Core Coda competences: Each skill file maps to a real capability — formulas, data architecture, page structure, column design, automations — turning expertise into context an AI can act on.🤖 AI-ready by design: Whether you use Antigravity, Claude, or another AI assistant, the skill file is the bridge between your intent and a result that holds up.
🗂 Data architecture: How to model relational tables that stay clean as a workspace grows — and how to encode those decisions into a file an AI can follow.✍️ Formula logic: The patterns behind thisRow, Filter(), Format(), and the formulas beginners fear. Not memorised — understood, then written into skill files.📐 Page & UI standards: Naming conventions, callout structure, column lifecycle rules. The decisions that make a Coda doc legible to someone who didn’t build it.⚙️ Automations & buttons: How to design actions that are self-documenting and safe to hand off.🧠 Steering AI agents: How to write skill files that work — what to include, what to leave out, and how to verify the AI is actually following them.
Coda Curious
Coda expertise, encoded into skill files your AI can act on.
Stop Treating AI Like a Search Engine.
Teach It to Think in Coda.
Six years of daily Coda practice — 350+ blogs, dozens of client workspaces — distilled into skill files any maker can hand to an AI and get production-quality Coda docs in return. No coding background required.
What Coda Curious Is
Coda Curious is where Coda expertise becomes teachable. Not tutorials. Not tips. A structured method for encoding what an expert knows into files an AI can follow — so that any maker, at any coding level, can steer an AI to build, maintain, and improve a Coda doc with confidence.
The Problem Worth Solving
Most people using AI with Coda get mediocre results — not because the AI is bad, but because it has no context. It doesn’t know your table conventions, your formula patterns, or why you should never use a Select List where a relational table belongs.
Skill files solve this. They carry the accumulated judgement of someone who has made the mistakes, documented the lessons, and knows which Coda decisions survive contact with a real workspace.
What You Can Learn Here
How the Blogs Work
Each blog is a working record of a problem encountered, a pattern tested, and a conclusion reached. Some are conceptual. Some are deeply practical. Some turned out to be wrong and were corrected in later posts — those corrections are noted.
The blogs feed the skill files. The skill files feed better AI outputs. The goal is a loop that keeps improving — and that any maker can enter at any point.
About Christiaan Huizer
I started using Coda in 2020, drawn by its ability to mix structured data with free-form writing in ways Airtable couldn’t match. Over six years, that grew into a consulting practice, a blog archive of 350+ posts, and a growing library of skill files covering the full range of Coda competences.
My clients range from solopreneurs building their own operational systems to ops leads who need a workspace that survives beyond tribal knowledge. I work in Dutch, French, and English, based in Ghent, Belgium.
I don’t do hacks or workarounds. I do patterns that hold — documented well enough that you, or your AI, can maintain them without me.
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