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Claude Skills by danielmiessler
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- ExtractWisdomContent-adaptive wisdom extraction that reads content first, detects which wisdom domains are present, and builds custom sections around them, with five depth levels and mandatory contrarian takes; pulls YouTube via fabric and articles via WebFetch. USE WHEN extract wisdom, analyze video, analyze podcast, extract insights, key takeaways, summarize interview, distill content. NOT FOR static Fabric extract_wisdom pattern (use Fabric).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- Workflows**Purpose:** Restructure an existing skill to match the canonical format with proper naming conventions.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- PrivateInvestigatorEthical people-finding and identity verification via parallel research agents across people-search sites, social media, public records, and reverse phone/email/image/username lookups, with confidence-scored results requiring 3+ matching identifiers. USE WHEN find person, locate person, reconnect, lost contact, old friend, reverse phone lookup, who owns this email, reverse image search, find by username, verify identity, people search, public-data background check, who is this caller. NOT FOR ...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- ArtStatic visual content across 20+ formats — diagrams, mermaid, infographics, D3 dashboards, comics, icons, wallpaper — via Nano Banana Pro (default), Nano Banana, and Flux. USE WHEN art, illustration, diagram, flowchart, infographic, header image, blog social thumbnail, visualize, generate image, mermaid, architecture diagram, comic, icon, blog art, framework diagram, D3 chart, remove background, wallpaper. NOT FOR locked house-style YouTube/channel/video thumbnails, video or animation (use Re...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- RemotionCreates programmatic video with React via Remotion — compositions, sequences, and motion graphics animated with useCurrentFrame() and rendered to MP4. USE WHEN video, animation, motion graphics, video rendering, React video, render video, animate content, make a short, create animations, video overlay, explainer video, animated explainer, content to video, programmatic video. NOT FOR static images, diagrams, or illustrations (use Art), tight-cut filler removal from raw talking-head recordings...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- ApifyScrapes social platforms, business data, and e-commerce via Apify actors — Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps, Amazon, and web crawls — filtering in code. USE WHEN scrape Instagram, scrape LinkedIn, scrape TikTok, scrape YouTube, scrape Facebook, Google Maps leads, Amazon reviews, business intelligence, multi-platform social listening, competitive analysis, lead generation, social monitoring, Apify actors, web crawl, extract contacts. NOT FOR X/Twitter account operati...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- BrightData4-tier progressive web scraping that auto-escalates WebFetch to curl to Interceptor to Bright Data proxy for bot detection and CAPTCHAs, with single-URL and multi-page crawl modes, output as markdown. USE WHEN Bright Data, scrape URL, web scraping, bot detection, crawl site, CAPTCHA, can't access, site blocking, extract page content, scrape whole site, spider domain, convert URL to markdown, getting blocked. NOT FOR simple public content (use WebFetch directly), social platform scraping with ...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- BeCreativeDivergent ideation and corpus expansion via Verbalized Sampling plus extended thinking — single-shot generates several internally diverse candidates and surfaces the strongest, or expands a seed corpus into a diverse dataset for evals and test sets. USE WHEN be creative, brainstorm, divergent ideas, creative solutions, maximum creativity, tree of thoughts, radically different, name this, creative angle, expand this corpus, synthetic data, generate diverse examples, create test set. NOT FOR mu...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- CouncilMulti-agent collaborative debate producing visible round-by-round transcripts with real intellectual friction — members are topic-briefed custom agents, run as a 3-round DEBATE or a 1-round QUICK check, to find the best path. USE WHEN council, debate, multiple perspectives, weigh options, deliberate, get different views, what would experts say, pros and cons. NOT FOR pure adversarial attack (use RedTeam).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- FirstPrinciplesPhysics-based reasoning framework (Musk methodology) that deconstructs a problem to irreducible fundamental truths, classifies every element as hard constraint, soft constraint, or assumption, then reconstructs the optimal solution from fundamentals alone. USE WHEN first principles, fundamental truths, challenge assumptions, real constraint, rebuild from scratch, start over, physics first, question everything, reasoning by analogy. NOT FOR structural feedback loops (use SystemsThinking).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- IterativeDepthStructured multi-angle exploration running 2-8 sequential passes over the same problem, each through a different scientific lens, to surface hidden requirements and edge cases invisible from one angle; each pass yields new ISC criteria. USE WHEN iterative depth, explore deeper, multi-angle analysis, surface hidden requirements, blind spot check, what am I missing. NOT FOR scope/zoom analysis (use ApertureOscillation).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- RedTeamAdversarial analysis deploying parallel expert agents to stress-test ideas, strategies, and plans — decomposes into atomic claims, attacks them, then steelmans and counter-argues, producing severity-ranked findings with remediation. USE WHEN red team, attack idea, counterarguments, critique, stress test, devil's advocate, find weaknesses, break this, poke holes, strongest objection. NOT FOR collaborative debate to find best path (use Council).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- ScienceThe scientific method as a universal problem-solving algorithm — goal-first, plural falsifiable hypotheses, designed experiments, and honest measurement, scaling from TDD to feature validation to MVP launch. USE WHEN think about, figure out, experiment, iterate, optimize, hypothesis, science, full cycle, quick diagnosis, structured investigation, how do we test, analyze results. NOT FOR multi-angle lens passes (use IterativeDepth).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- AphorismsCurated aphorism collection with CRUD — content-based matching, themed search, thinker research, DB maintenance. Quotes organized by author/theme/context/usage to prevent repetition. Four workflows: FindAphorism, AddAphorism, ResearchThinker, SearchAphorisms. Themes: Stoicism, Wisdom, Truth-seeking, Excellence, Resilience, Curiosity. USE WHEN aphorism, quote, find a quote, research thinker, add aphorism, quote for newsletter, what did X say about, quote bank. NOT FOR creative writing or socia...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- AudioEditorAI audio editing pipeline: Whisper word-level transcription → Claude segment classification (KEEP/CUT_FILLER/CUT_FALSE_START/CUT_STUTTER/CUT_DEAD_AIR) → ffmpeg with 40ms qsin crossfades and room-tone fill → optional Cleanvoice cloud polish; plus GateScan/GateRepair for noise-gate ticking artifacts. Modes: --preview, --aggressive, --polish. Workflow: Clean. USE WHEN clean audio, edit audio, remove filler words, clean podcast, remove ums, cut dead air, polish audio, trim recording, cut stutters...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- CreateCLIGenerates production-ready TypeScript CLIs via a 3-tier template system (manual arg parsing, Commander.js, oclif), each shipping full implementation, docs, package.json, strict config, JSON output, and exit-code compliance. USE WHEN create CLI, build CLI, command-line tool, wrap API, add command, upgrade tier, TypeScript CLI. NOT FOR LifeOS skill scaffolding (use CreateSkill).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- CreateSkillMandatory orchestrator for all LifeOS skill work — creating, editing, adding a workflow or tool, renaming, validating, or canonicalizing any skill. Handrolling skill files is forbidden; owns the full lifecycle: scaffold, validate, canonicalize, test, improve. USE WHEN create skill, new skill, make a skill, build a skill, set up a skill, private skill, make a X skill, add a workflow, add a tool, edit/change/update/rename a skill, skill frontmatter, validate skill, check skill, canonicalize, sc...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- XlsxCreate, read, analyze Excel workbooks — formulas, financial models, data analysis, recalculation, and CSV/TSV conversion. USE WHEN xlsx, Excel, spreadsheet, formulas, financial model, data analysis.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- EvalsAssertion-first AI eval framework aligned to Anthropic's 'Demystifying evals for AI agents' — typed deterministic asserts + a forced-structured LLM judge over an input→assert case schema, pass^k/pass@k, capability vs regression suites, subscription-billed. USE WHEN eval, evaluate, benchmark, regression test, assertion, assert, llm-rubric, judge, pass@k, pass^k, grade output, compare prompts/models, test agent. NOT FOR scientific-method framing (use Science), property/mutation testing of code ...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- FabricExecute any of 240+ specialized prompt patterns natively across Extraction, Summarization, Analysis, Creation, Improvement, Security, Rating. Common: extract_wisdom, create_threat_model, analyze_claims, improve_writing, review_code, mermaid, youtube_summary. CLI used only for YouTube transcript (-y) and URL fallback (-u). Two workflows: ExecutePattern, UpdatePatterns. USE WHEN fabric, fabric pattern, run fabric, update patterns, threat model, analyze claims, improve writing, review code, merm...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- PromptingMeta-prompting standard library for generating, optimizing, and composing prompts programmatically via Standards, Handlebars Templates, and Tools; output is always a prompt to use elsewhere, not final content. USE WHEN meta-prompting, template generation, prompt optimization, prompt engineering, write a prompt, create system prompt, Handlebars template, eval prompt, judge prompt. NOT FOR generating final content (use the appropriate domain skill).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- ResearchMulti-agent web research with mandatory URL verification, confidence-tagged output, and four depth modes (quick to deep investigation). USE WHEN research, do research, quick research, extensive research, deep investigation, find information, investigate, extract alpha, analyze content, retrieve content, AI trends, enhance content, extract knowledge, web scraping, YouTube extraction, map landscape, competitive analysis, find it, find this, find this product, identify this, what is this, what's...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- TelosDual-context skill: Personal TELOS reads and updates goals, beliefs, narratives, strategies, and more with timestamped backups; Project TELOS analyzes .md/.csv directories for dependency chains, bottlenecks, and alignment, generating reports, narrative points, or dashboards. USE WHEN Telos, life goals, projects, dependencies, update TELOS, narrative points, McKinsey report, dashboard, what am I wrong about, life frames, mental models. NOT FOR conversational constitutional review (use Interview).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- COREPersonal AI Infrastructure core. AUTO-LOADS at session start. The authoritative reference for how the PAI system works, how to use it, and all system-level configuration. USE WHEN any session begins, user asks about the system, identity, configuration, workflows, security, or any other question about how the PAI system operates.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- THEALGORITHMUniversal execution engine using scientific method to achieve ideal state. USE WHEN complex tasks, multi-step work, "run the algorithm", "use the algorithm", OR any non-trivial request that benefits from structured execution with ISC (Ideal State Criteria) tracking.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- VoiceServerVoice server management. USE WHEN voice server, TTS server, voice notification, prosody.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- SalesTransforms product documentation into sales-ready packages — a story explanation, charcoal gestural sketch art, and talking points — via a narrative-arc pipeline. USE WHEN sales, proposal, pitch deck, value proposition, sales narrative, sales deck, sales package, turn this into a pitch, create a sales story, sales materials, product pitch, transform docs to sales, sales script. NOT FOR Hormozi $100M frameworks, value equation, irresistible offer, or VOC mining, standalone diagrams or illustra...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- USMetricsAnalyze and update 68 US economic and social indicators from five government APIs (FRED, EIA, Treasury, BLS, Census) across 10 categories: GDP, Inflation, Employment, Housing, Consumer Finance, Markets, Trade, Government/Fiscal, Demographics, Health. Two workflows: UpdateData, GetCurrentState (10y/5y/2y/1y trend analysis). USE WHEN GDP, inflation, unemployment, economic metrics, gas prices, how is the economy, refresh data, FRED, US metrics, economic trends. NOT FOR pathogen surveillance.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- WriteStoryScaffolding that helps a writer build a story they already want to tell — fills in structure, hidden wound, theme, and prose from the writer's own material across seven narrative layers, deriving the spine from their notes as proposals they ratify. Bans generic AI patterns; scales short story to multi-book series. USE WHEN write story, fiction, novel, chapter, story bible, character arc, plot outline, creative writing, worldbuilding, draft story, help me write my story, develop my novel, laye...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- ApertureOscillation3-pass scope oscillation that holds a question constant while shifting zoom — narrow/tactical, wide/strategic, then synthesis — to surface design tensions, scope recommendations, and coherence assessments invisible at any single zoom level. USE WHEN aperture oscillation, oscillate scope, zoom in and out, tactical vs strategic, scope framing, design tension, system coherence check, local vs global design, wrong scope, scope negotiation. NOT FOR lens rotation across angles (use IterativeDepth).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- ArXivSearch and retrieve arXiv academic papers by topic, category, or paper ID — with AlphaXiv-enriched AI-generated overviews. Uses arXiv Atom API across cs.AI/cs.LG/cs.CL/cs.CR/cs.MA/cs.SE/cs.IR. Three workflows: Latest, Search, Paper. USE WHEN arxiv, papers, latest papers, research papers, recent ML papers, paper lookup, summarize paper, latest LLM papers, AI safety papers, cs.AI latest. NOT FOR general research (Research), URL parsing, or annual reports.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- BitterPillEngineeringAudits any AI instruction set for over-prompting using the core test — would a smarter model make this rule unnecessary? Applies Five Questions to every rule (Claude already does this? Contradiction? Redundant? One-off fix? Vague?) then classifies as CUT/RESOLVE/MERGE/EVALUATE/SHARPEN/MOVE/KEEP. Workflows: Audit (full system, token savings), QuickCheck (single file). Principle: less scaffolding = better output. USE WHEN BPE, bitter pill, audit setup, over-prompting, trim instructions, dead we...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- DaemonManage the public daemon profile — a digital representation of what you're working on. DaemonAggregator reads LifeOS sources (TELOS, KNOWLEDGE, PROJECTS, MEMORY/WORK, identity) → daemon-data.json. SecurityFilter strips names/paths/credentials via deterministic patterns (NOT LLM). Workflows: UpdateDaemon, ReadDaemon, PreviewDaemon, DeployDaemon. USE WHEN daemon, update daemon, daemon profile, deploy daemon, preview daemon, read daemon, public profile, digital presence. NOT FOR LifeOS system ma...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- ISAOwns the Ideal State Artifact — the primitive holding a project or task's articulated ideal state; scaffolds, interviews, grills a half-formed idea into shape via checkpointed discovery, scores completeness, reconciles feature excerpts to master, seeds from a repo, and appends decisions/changelog/verification across a locked seventeen-section order. USE WHEN ISA, ISC, ideal state, ideal state criteria, project specification, hill-climb, articulating done, fog, not yet specified, grill me, dis...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- IdeateEvolutionary ideation engine — loop-controlled multi-cycle idea generation through phases of dreaming, cross-domain stealing, recombination, fitness testing, selection, and Lamarckian meta-learning, producing ranked novel solution candidates with provenance. USE WHEN ideate, id8, novel ideas, evolve ideas, dream up solutions, innovate, breakthrough ideas, idea evolution, multi-cycle creativity, need genuinely new approaches. NOT FOR quick single-pass brainstorming (use BeCreative).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- InterceptorReal Chrome/Brave + macOS Computer Use from inside the browser — zero CDP fingerprint, real sessions; mandatory for visual deploy verification. Drive clickwork yourself. USE WHEN verify deploy, confirm UI, screenshot verification, computer use, macos automation, debug web, troubleshoot, visual check, motion/animation bug, jank, transition stutter, scrub a flow, console logs/errors, runtime/JS/react errors, mismatch warning, network traffic/log, HAR/pcapng export, hydration/blank-page debug, f...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- InterviewEvidence-grounded context refresh: reads constitutional files, TELOS, and CURRENT_STATE/IDEAL_STATE dimension files via TelosFreshness, pulls observed data (Oura sleep/HRV, Conduit app-time, work registry, git, expenses via StateEvidence), and drives a peer conversation that opens with claim-vs-evidence contradictions, drafts corrections for ratification, and closes with a ComputeGap-grounded ideal-state review. Routes to ContextCheckin; Phase0Setup on fresh install. USE WHEN /interview, resu...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- LoopIterative improvement loop — refine a target across multiple Algorithm cycles toward ideal state. USE WHEN loop, iterate, refine, multiple passes, keep improving, revisit, rework.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- MigrateIntakes external content, classifies chunks against LifeOS taxonomy, commits with provenance. Sources: .md/.txt, stdin, LifeOS dirs, CLAUDE.md/Cursor/OpenAI Custom Instructions, Obsidian/Notion/Apple Notes exports. MigrateScan classifies → routing table. MigrateApprove with --approve-all/--approve-target/--review/--dry-run. Confidence ≥70% auto, 40-70% confirm, <40% walk-through. USE WHEN /migrate, migrate content, import from other LifeOS, bring in old notes, import Cursor rules, import CLAU...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- OptimizeAutonomous optimization loop — hill-climb any target. Code with metrics, or skills/prompts/agents with LLM-as-judge. USE WHEN optimize, hill climb, improve metric, reduce latency, optimize skill, optimize prompt, eval mode.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- RootCauseAnalysisStructured incident investigation using Five Whys, Fishbone, blameless Postmortem, Fault Tree, Kepner-Tregoe, and FMEA — traces failures to systemic root causes rather than blaming humans. USE WHEN root cause, RCA, 5 whys, fishbone, postmortem, incident analysis, fault tree, why does this keep failing, blameless, recurring bug. NOT FOR systemic loops (use SystemsThinking).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- SystemsThinkingStructural analysis of complex systems — Iceberg model, Causal Loop feedback diagrams, archetype matching, Meadows leverage points, and concept maps — grounded in the premise that behavior is generated by structure. USE WHEN systems thinking, causal loop, feedback loops, archetypes, leverage points, iceberg model, fix the system, why does this keep happening, recurring problem, second-order effects. NOT FOR incident causal chains (use RootCauseAnalysis).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- WebdesignDesign and integrate web interfaces via three paths: DirectDesign (write design inline with Anthropic frontend-design philosophy — the default workhorse), native /design + /design-sync Claude Code commands (preferred for code integration and design-system sync), or ClaudeDesign (drive claude.ai/design through Interceptor — experimental visual-review fallback). USE WHEN web design, UI design, create prototype, design system, design sync, redesign site, mockup, landing page, dashboard design, d...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- WorldThreatModelPersistent world-model harness that stress-tests ideas, strategies, and investments against 11 time horizons from 6 months to 50 years, each a deep analysis of geopolitics, tech, economics, society, and security, in Fast/Standard/Deep tiers. USE WHEN threat model, world model, test idea, future analysis, time horizon, stress test against future, long-term risk. NOT FOR single-shot idea attack (use RedTeam).Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- LifeOSInstall and onboard a user into LifeOS — the Life Operating System (current state → ideal state via TELOS + the Algorithm). The agentic installer detects your OS + harness, wires hooks with permission, scaffolds your USER tree, pulls in sources you provide, and runs the TELOS / current→ideal interview that seeds your Pulse dashboard. USE WHEN install LifeOS, set up LifeOS, lifeos setup, lifeos-setup, lifeos interview, onboard me, run the interview, integrate LifeOS into my harness, update Lif...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- BiasCheckThree-layer bias analysis on any URL, file, or text — auto-fetches the content and any cited study, then audits data-level biases, source conflicts of interest, and journalism-added distortions, separating what the data supports from what's editorialized. USE WHEN bias analysis, analyze bias, bias check, check this study, who funded this, is this source biased, fact-check article, methodological flaws, source credibility, what's wrong with this claim. NOT FOR psychological author analysis, re...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- CMUXDrives cmux as an agent cockpit to boot, race, and monitor visible agent teams. Mac-only. USE WHEN cmux, agent cockpit, boot an agent team, orchestrate agents, three-tier orchestration, agent race, needle-in-haystack hotfix, agent fleet, 2x2 fleet, watch/monitor my agents, scale compute to scale impact, send a prompt to a running agent, multiplexer, terminal cockpit, orchestrator lead worker. NOT FOR one-shot in-harness subagents with no terminal to watch (use Agent/Workflow), the Pulse dashb...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- CortexOperate Cortex, the LifeOS memory system — the typed Knowledge Archive (People, Companies, Ideas, Research with typed related: links) plus recall of prior work sessions, ISAs, and conversations. Search, add, harvest, develop, ingest, distill, graph-navigate, recall. USE WHEN cortex, knowledge, knowledge base, search knowledge, what do we know about, archive, harvest, knowledge status, develop note, add to knowledge, ingest, contradictions, knowledge graph, retrieve, mine conversations, distil...Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- WorkflowsCreate a new skill following the canonical structure with proper TitleCase naming.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822
- WorkflowsImprove an existing skill based on test feedback, user observations, or quality concerns. This is the revision half of the test-iterate loop.Votes: 0GitHub stars: 18,822