Claude Skills by danielmiessler

Voice server management. USE WHEN voice server, TTS server, voice notification, prosody.

Personal AI Infrastructure core. The authoritative reference for how PAI works.

Sales workflows. USE WHEN sales, proposal, pricing. SkillSearch('sales') for docs.

US economic indicators. USE WHEN GDP, inflation, unemployment, economic metrics, gas prices. SkillSearch('usmetrics') for docs.

Layered fiction writing system using Will Storr's storytelling science and rhetorical figures. USE WHEN write story, fiction, novel, short story, book, chapter, story bible, character arc, plot outline, creative writing, worldbuilding, narrative, mystery writing, dialogue, prose, series planning.

Content extraction and analysis — wisdom extraction from videos, podcasts, articles, and YouTube. USE WHEN extract wisdom, content analysis, analyze content, insight report, analyze video, analyze podcast, extract insights, key takeaways, what did I miss, extract from YouTube.

Developer utilities and tools — CLI generation, skill scaffolding, agent delegation, system upgrades, evals, documents, parsing, audio editing, Fabric patterns, Cloudflare infrastructure, browser automation, meta-prompting, and aphorisms. USE WHEN create CLI, build CLI, command-line tool, wrap API, add command, upgrade tier, TypeScript CLI, create skill, new skill, scaffold skill, validate skill, update skill, fix skill structure, canonicalize skill, parallel execution, agent teams, delegate,...

3-pass scope oscillation that holds a question constant while shifting the scope envelope — narrow/tactical, wide/strategic, then synthesis — to surface design tensions invisible at any single zoom level. Requires two distinct inputs: the tactical target (what you're building) and strategic context (the larger system it serves). Pass 1 captures the component's own internal logic. Pass 2 reveals what the system needs it to be. Pass 3 finds where those views diverge — that delta is the output. ...

Search and retrieve arXiv academic papers by topic, category, or paper ID — with AlphaXiv-enriched AI-generated overviews. Uses arXiv Atom API (no auth) for discovery and search across cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.CL (NLP/LLMs), cs.CR (security), cs.MA (multi-agent), cs.SE, and cs.IR. Supports title (ti:), abstract (abs:), author (au:), and category (cat:) search fields with boolean operators (AND, OR, ANDNOT); sorts by lastUpdatedDate or relevance; paginates up to 2,000 results per call with 3s rate lim...

Audits 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 — Does Claude already do this? Contradiction? Redundant? One-off fix? Vague? — then classifies each as CUT / RESOLVE / MERGE / EVALUATE / SHARPEN / MOVE / KEEP. Two workflows: Audit (full system — reads all force-loaded files from settings.json, reports token savings estimate) and QuickCheck (single file, fast keep/cut/sharpen verdict). O...

2-phase context search across the PAI session registry, work directories, and ISAs for instant cold-start recovery. Phase 1 (always): parallel scan of work.json session registry, session-names.json, MEMORY/WORK/ directory names, and ISA title grep — returns 5 most recent matches per source, loads top-3 ISA summaries (first 10 lines only). Phase 2 (only if Phase 1 returns fewer than 3 matches): PAI git history + current project git history. Output: compact context block under 40 lines with ses...

Manage the public daemon profile — a living digital representation of what you're working on, thinking about, reading, and building. DaemonAggregator.ts reads PAI sources (TELOS missions/goals/books/wisdom, KNOWLEDGE/Ideas titles, PROJECTS.md, MEMORY/WORK themes, PRINCIPAL_IDENTITY bio) and writes to daemon-data.json. SecurityFilter.ts applies deterministic pattern-matching (NOT LLM judgment) to strip names, paths, credentials, and internal refs. Structurally excludes CONTACTS, FINANCES, HEAL...

Owns the Ideal State Artifact — the universal primitive that holds the articulated ideal state of any thing (project, task, application, library, infrastructure, work session) as a hard-to-vary explanation. The ISA is a single document that articulates the ideal state, drives the build, verifies the build, and records the evolution of understanding. Five workflows: Scaffold (generate a fresh ISA from a prompt at a specified effort tier), Interview (adaptive question-and-answer to fill in or d...

Evolutionary ideation engine — loop-controlled multi-cycle idea generation through 9 phases (CONSUME, DREAM at noise=0.9, DAYDREAM at noise=0.5, CONTEMPLATE at noise=0.1, STEAL cross-domain borrowing, MATE recombination via Fisher-Yates shuffle, TEST fitness scoring, EVOLVE selection, META-LEARN Lamarckian strategy adjustment). Loop Controller drives adaptive continue/pivot/stop logic with mid-cycle quality checkpoints; strategies evolve across cycles based on what worked. Produces ranked nov...

Real Chrome browser automation via Interceptor extension — controls the actual browser from inside (zero CDP fingerprint, passes all major bot detection checks including BrowserScan, Pixelscan, CreepJS, Fingerprint.com). Stays logged in, uses your real sessions. Compound commands (open, read, act, inspect) collapse multi-step flows into single calls. Unique capabilities: monitor/replay system (record user actions → export replayable plan scripts for regression), network log (auto-captures all...

Runs a phased conversational interview across all PAI context files using InterviewScan.ts, which orders targets by PHASE and assigns conversation mode per file. Phase 1 (foundational TELOS) always runs first regardless of completeness: MISSION, GOALS, PROBLEMS, STRATEGIES, CHALLENGES, NARRATIVES, SPARKS, BELIEFS, WISDOM, MODELS, FRAMES in leverage order. Phase 2: IDEAL_STATE (HEALTH, MONEY, FREEDOM, RELATIONSHIPS, CREATIVE) in Fill mode. Phase 3: preferences (BOOKS, AUTHORS, BANDS, MOVIES, R...

Manage the PAI Knowledge Archive — a curated, typed graph of notes across four entity domains: People, Companies, Ideas, and Research. Operations: search (3-pass: lexical + frontmatter + wikilink), add (creates note with mandatory typed cross-links), harvest (KnowledgeHarvester pulls from PAI sources), develop (surfaces seedling notes for enrichment), ingest (fetch URL or file, create primary note, ripple updates to related notes), contradictions (find conflicting claims via tag-overlap pairs...

Iterative improvement loop — revisit and refine a target across multiple Algorithm cycles toward an ideal state. USE WHEN loop, iterate, refine, improve iteratively, multiple passes, keep improving, loop mode, revisit, rework.

Intakes existing content from external sources, classifies each chunk against the PAI destination taxonomy, and commits approved chunks with provenance. Sources: .md/.markdown/.txt, stdin, PAI TELOS/MEMORY/KNOWLEDGE dirs, CLAUDE.md/.cursorrules/OpenAI Custom Instructions, Obsidian/Notion/Apple Notes exports, journal dumps. MigrateScan.ts chunks and classifies, producing a routing table with per-target counts and confidence %. MigrateApprove.ts approval loop: --approve-all, --approve-target, -...

Autonomous optimization loop — hill-climb any target. Code with metrics, or skills/prompts/agents with LLM-as-judge eval. USE WHEN optimize, autoresearch, hill climb, improve metric, reduce latency, improve performance, benchmark optimization, bundle size, page speed, autonomous improvement loop, optimize skill, optimize prompt, improve quality, eval mode.

Structured incident investigation grounded in Toyota Production System, Kaoru Ishikawa, James Reason's Swiss Cheese model, Dean Gano's Apollo method, and Google SRE blameless-postmortem culture. Five workflows: FiveWhys (linear/branching causal chain, single-thread incidents), Fishbone/Ishikawa (6 M's or 4 P's category mapping, multiple suspected areas), Postmortem (blameless timeline + contributing factors + action items, wraps other methods), FaultTree (AND/OR gate logic, safety-critical mu...

Structural analysis of complex systems grounded in Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, Jay Forrester, Russell Ackoff, and the Santa Fe Institute tradition. Five workflows: Iceberg (walk Events → Patterns → Structures → Mental Models to find why the same thing keeps happening), CausalLoop (build causal loop diagrams with reinforcing R and balancing B loops), FindArchetype (match behavior to ~10 canonical patterns — Limits to Growth, Shifting the Burden, Tragedy of the Commons, Fixes That Fail, etc. ...

Design and integrate web interfaces using Anthropic's Claude Design (claude.ai/design) as the primary engine, with optional downstream handoff to the frontend-design plugin for production code. Drives Claude Design through the Interceptor skill for programmatic access to the authenticated claude.ai session. USE WHEN: web design, UI design, create prototype, design system, design tokens, brand extraction, redesign site, mockup, wireframe, landing page, dashboard design, component library, desi...

Persistent world-model harness that stress-tests ideas, strategies, and investments against 11 time horizons from 6 months to 50 years. Each horizon model is a deep (~10 page) analysis of geopolitics, technology, economics, society, environment, security, and wildcards stored at PAI_DIR/MEMORY/RESEARCH/WorldModels/. Three execution tiers: Fast (~2 min, single synthesizing agent), Standard (~10 min, 11 parallel horizon agents + RedTeam + FirstPrinciples), Deep (up to 1hr, adds per-horizon Rese...