danielmiessler/LifeOS

Agent skills in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/LifeOS, each with its code score out of 100.

⛰️ LifeOS — The AI-powered Life Operating System that helps you hill climb to wherever you're going.

Repository score

52 / 100 D

Skills

98

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Average skill score

61

GitHub stars

19,841

License

MIT

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98 skills in this repository

1. Headshot

   Generates professional AI headshots of the principal via Nano Banana Pro from 1-3 reference images, staged to Downloads for review. USE WHEN headshot, profile picture, avatar, pho…

   74B
2. Development

   Builds, tests, modifies and checks up on software against its ISA, from a one-file change to a giant system. Build turns intent into ISA criteria and makes them pass; Test proves…

   73B
3. OpenSourceManagement

   Triages open issues, pull requests and GitHub Discussions across the principal's own open-source repos (the list in Config.md) via the gh CLI, ranks what needs attention with sugg…

   72B
4. Order

   Orders real-world goods and services online through approved providers (DoorDash via dd-cli, Amazon planned); every purchase is a must-ask with a spend ceiling. USE WHEN order foo…

   71B
5. USStats

   Query the configured long-run US almanac (90+ annual series on economy, debt, cost of living, health, crime, family, trust, energy, many back to the 1940s: trends, verdicts, mover…

   71B
6. StoryExplanation

   Generates narrative explanations in the user's first-person voice, from 3-part narrative to CSE numbered points, each a standalone social-ready thought. USE WHEN story explanation…

   70B
7. Webdesign

   Designs and integrates web interfaces via DirectDesign (inline, Anthropic frontend-design philosophy, the default) or NativeDesign (/design artboards plus /design-sync design-syst…

   70B
8. Art

   Static visual content in 20+ formats (diagrams, infographics, comics, icons, wallpaper) via Nano Banana Pro by default, Nano Banana, and Flux, plus technical diagrams and a few es…

   69C
9. HillClimb

   Improves anything in LifeOS (a skill, workflow, eval, ISA, prompt, rule or code metric) by experiment: finds its real misses in Errata, Assay and its ISA, draws changes from varie…

   69C
10. Prioritize

    Turns everything the system is seeing (open work queue, Synapse-graded bookmarks and stories, new Cortex notes, open upgrade records, TELOS goals) into ranked recommendations of w…

    69C
11. Research

    Multi-agent web research with verified URLs and confidence-tagged output at four depths. USE WHEN research, do research, quick research, extensive research, deep investigation, fi…

    69C
12. Unify

    Harmony analysis across any set of inputs (systems, rules, skills, goals, documents, plans), defaulting to all of LifeOS and its subcomponents when none are named. Extracts each i…

    69C
13. VideoEssay

    Turns content plus a stance into a video essay narrated by the DA, any post, idea or feature plus a length into a short DA-narrated explainer video, or the author's own audio read…

    69C
14. AudioEditor

    Cleans spoken audio via Whisper transcription, Claude segment classification, and ffmpeg cuts, plus breath taming and noise-gate artifact repair. USE WHEN clean audio, edit audio,…

    68C
15. Brand

    The principal brand integrity system: sweeps and refreshes brand/focus messaging across every public surface (GitHub profile README, blog, company site, marketing site, repo READM…

    68C
16. Cloudflare

    Deploys and manages Cloudflare Workers, Pages, KV, R2, D1, DNS, and Queues with the cf CLI, converts Wrangler projects to cf, and authors MCP servers as Workers; never call cf or…

    68C
17. Dotfiles

    Manage ~/.zshrc and a chosen set of ~/.config/ directories (you name them in Config.md) against a private GitHub dotfiles repo. Intents: Push (verify private remote, scan secrets)…

    67C
18. Pareto

    Maps any topic's zeitgeist and frontier — sweeps YouTube, GitHub, the web and the Research skill, ranks everything down to the vital few by relevance, reach, recency and outlier-n…

    67C
19. Speaking

    Finds and tracks paid speaking opportunities that fit your own topics by scraping conference CFPs and speaker pages, ranks them by fit and urgency with deadlines, and drafts talk…

    67C
20. Stripe

    Runs Stripe billing operations via the Stripe SDK and, when configured, an admin dashboard's cached endpoints: products, prices, subscriptions, MRR and revenue, customers, payment…

    67C
21. Upgrade

    Improve LifeOS from what the best practitioners are shipping around AI harnesses — Anthropic first (changelogs, docs, releases), then trusted creators, trending repos, and the sys…

    67C
22. Workflows

    Authors and operates Workflows v2 definitions through the `workflow` CLI: scaffold a definition, validate it until clean, graph it, run it locally, put a schedule on it, link work…

    67C
23. CreateCLI

    Generates production-ready TypeScript CLIs via a 3-tier template system (manual arg parsing, Commander.js, oclif), each shipping full implementation, docs, package.json, strict co…

    66C
24. Prompting

    Meta-prompting standard library for generating, optimizing, and composing prompts programmatically via Standards, Handlebars Templates, and Tools; output is always a prompt to use…

    66C
25. AnnualReports

    Aggregate several hundred cybersecurity annual reports from CrowdStrike, Mandiant, IBM, Verizon, Microsoft, CISA, OWASP, Wiz, Palo Alto across 19+ categories (threat intel, ransom…

    65C
26. Calibrate

    Calibrates any eval against the principal's own taste: takes a task in plain words, finds the eval suites and targets that cover it and offers them as options, then shows N real o…

    65C
27. CardBenefits

    Tracks the principal's credit cards, their perks and annual credits, and points and miles balances across bank, airline and hotel programs, then turns them into which-card answers…

    65C
28. Gifts

    Researches special, uncommon, high-quality gift ideas for specific people in the principal's life, from a registry of recipients with ages and interests, using what is trending in…

    65C
29. HTML

    Renders the current session output as a self-contained, designed HTML artifact via a deterministic renderer that owns all layout from typed JSON. USE WHEN /HTML, HTML artifact, re…

    65C
30. Profile

    View, edit, or clear the LifeOS User Model (PRINCIPAL_IDENTITY.md) — persistent identity context loaded at session startup. Three intents: View, Edit (identity, goals, constraints…

    65C
31. Harvest

    Mines one piece of content for LifeOS and/or ingests it into Cortex. USE WHEN harvest, harvest this, /harvest, /ha, mine this for the system, anything useful in this for us, what…

    64C
32. Hermes

    Hermes sidecar observability: health, failure triage, cron, guard blocks, logs, traces. USE WHEN hermes, sidecar, hermes failed, hermes task failed, iMessage task failed, message…

    64C
33. Interview

    Refreshes TELOS and current-state claims against observed evidence (Oura, Conduit, git, expenses) and drafts corrections for ratification. USE WHEN /interview, resume interview, c…

    64C
34. SecurityUpdates

    Aggregates and curates security news from six authoritative sources into a ranked, deduplicated digest across Security News, Research, and Ideas, with stateful tracking to avoid r…

    64C
35. Writing

    Authors and assembles prose from the principal's material, audits AI patterns, and scores with Pangram. USE WHEN assemble a transcript, shape dictated notes, organize rough spoken…

    64C
36. X

    Runs all X (Twitter) operations via X API v2 and the xurl CLI: post tweets and threads with media, publish X Articles, search, fetch bookmarks, sweep new bookmarks into idea-issue…

    64C
37. ReadIt

    Reads content aloud in the DA's Fish Audio voice (an article, a file, pasted text, or what the DA just wrote) as one continuous read that starts within seconds and can be paused o…

    63C
38. RichFormat

    The rich-answer rendering mod, a Claude Code function-hooks plugin that draws assistant replies in the terminal with boxed flow diagrams, bar charts, sparklines, trees and timelin…

    63C
39. Shortcuts

    Bridges macOS Shortcuts.app into LifeOS: build a Shortcut once via computer use, then call it as a CLI to reach Apple-only capabilities like HomeKit. USE WHEN build a shortcut, cr…

    63C
40. ThreatModel

    Defensive threat modeling of your own estate: sensitive-data map, trust boundaries, compromise scenarios, a scored risk register via CLI. USE WHEN run a full security audit, secur…

    63C
41. WastewaterCA

    Pull California population-level pathogen surveillance from CDC NWSS and CDPH/CHHS Open Data — SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A/B, RSV, Mpox, Norovirus, H5, Candida auris from CA wastewate…

    63C
42. ArXiv

    Search 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…

    62C
43. BrightData

    4-tier page fetching that moves from plain curl to curl with declared headers to a real browser through Interceptor to Bright Data's managed fetch product, single URL or multi-pag…

    62C
44. ComputerUse

    Front door for driving this Mac: anything with a DOM, AX, CLI, or API handle routes to Interceptor; pixel-only GUI work goes to a vision agent, OpenAI Astra via codex exec or a to…

    62C
45. CrimeStats

    Pulls US city crime statistics from public sources (FBI crime data, city police data portals, state open-data portals, rate aggregators): rates per 100K, year-over-year trends, re…

    62C
46. LifeOSHooks

    The LifeOS function-hook plugin: check it is armed, explain why a line or banner was or was not drawn, regenerate its types after a Claude Code update, sync pure-core copies, run…

    62C
47. Music

    Learns the user's music taste as a written corpus and uses it to build playlists, recommend tracks, and discover adjacent artists. USE WHEN my music, my music taste, what do I lik…

    62C
48. RedTeam

    Adversarial analysis deploying parallel expert agents to stress-test ideas, strategies, and plans — attacks atomic claims, then steelmans and counter-argues, with severity-ranked…

    62C
49. Vitals

    macOS performance diagnostics via a read-only CLI: CPU/GPU/memory hogs, throttling, swap, disk. USE WHEN mac slow, system slow, what's slowing down my mac, computer is slow, what'…

    62C
50. WriteStory

    Scaffolds a story the writer already wants to tell, deriving structure, wound, theme, and prose from their own notes across seven narrative layers, short story to series. USE WHEN…

    62C
51. Assay

    Assertion-first eval framework: code asserts, calibrated judges, pass@k, A/B comparison, agentic evals, judgment-layer question systems and code-extract-decide-write pipelines. US…

    61C
52. DetectAI

    Detects AI-generated writing: heuristic audit against known AI patterns, statistical signals (entropy, burstiness), an empirical Pangram score, and a keyless scan for watermark or…

    61C
53. HyperFrames

    One-off semantic animations and animated explainers authored as HTML + GSAP on HyperFrames, directed by the meaning layer (MeaningMap then Direction, reviewed before anything anim…

    61C
54. SecurityMarketData

    Query curated cybersecurity market and company intelligence. USE WHEN security market data OR cybersecurity funding OR cyber M&A OR security-company/investor research OR market ma…

    61C
55. ApertureOscillation

    3-pass scope oscillation that holds a question constant while shifting zoom — narrow/tactical, wide/strategic, then synthesis — to surface design tensions, scope recommendations,…

    60C
56. Broadcast

    Multi-platform social syndication CLI: post text and media to X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Instagram from one command, with per-platform limits, --dry-run, status checks; also X Arti…

    60C
57. Hardening

    Hardens LifeOS tests via property-based testing with fast-check. USE WHEN harden, hardening, property test, property based testing, PBT, fast-check, strengthen tests, find bugs ex…

    60C
58. Herdr

    Operates herdr, the terminal workspace manager for coding agents, through its CLI and socket API, explains and edits the local herdr setup (config.toml key mirror, shell wrapper,…

    60C
59. Interceptor

    Real Chrome plus macOS Computer Use from inside the browser, real sessions; mandatory for visual deploy verification. USE WHEN verify deploy, confirm UI, screenshot verification,…

    60C
60. Restaurants

    The household's food and restaurant preferences, used to recommend where and what to eat. USE WHEN where should we eat, restaurant recommendation, what do we like to eat, our favo…

    60C
61. Visualize

    Visualizes anything at all and never declines — a codebase, a physical setup, a timeline, a process, finances, a comparison, a concept, a URL, a dataset — as a short console summa…

    60C
62. Aphorisms

    Curated aphorism collection with CRUD: content-based matching, themed search, thinker research, and usage tracking to avoid repeating quotes. USE WHEN aphorism, quote, find a quot…

    59C
63. ArtDirection

    Directs visual quality across images, films, slides, and site captures through a direction council, two vendors' vision judgments against anchored craft criteria, ranked defects,…

    59C
64. BeCreative

    Single-pass divergent ideation via Verbalized Sampling: surfaces the strongest of several diverse candidates, or expands a seed corpus into an eval dataset. USE WHEN be creative,…

    59C
65. BitterLessonEngineering

    Audits any AI instruction set for over-prompting by asking whether a smarter model would make each rule unnecessary, then classifies every rule from CUT to KEEP. USE WHEN BLE, bit…

    59C
66. Coffee

    Learns the user's coffee taste as a written corpus plus their brewing gear, and uses both to recommend coffees, discover new ones that fit, answer brew questions, and log what the…

    59C
67. Council

    Multi-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…

    59C
68. Excalidraw

    Sketches ideas as hand-drawn Excalidraw diagrams on a live local canvas via the pinned mcp-excalidraw-server CLI, with mermaid conversion, file I/O, and share links. USE WHEN exca…

    59C
69. Explain

    Keeps the principal current on the fundamentals of what is going on in the principal's projects, work and technical infrastructure: spoken interactive lessons on the conversation…

    59C
70. ISA

    Owns the Ideal State Artifact (ISA): scaffolds, restates, interviews, discusses, rates, renders, upgrades, and maintains the articulation of a project's ideal state. USE WHEN ISA,…

    59C
71. Spotify

    Acts on the principal's Spotify account via a deterministic CLI (Tools/Spotify.ts): search, playlists, now-playing, library, and playback across devices. USE WHEN spotify, play on…

    59C
72. SuggestSkills

    Proposes which new skills to build from work history and frustration signals; read-only, it hands a ranked shortlist to CreateSkill. USE WHEN should I create a skill, what skills…

    59C
73. Superior

    Thinking skill for big problems that swaps the solver: reads the scope it was given, infers the scope the asker most likely means, maps that, then asks how a vastly smarter, fully…

    59C
74. CreateSkill

    Mandatory orchestrator for all LifeOS skill work: scaffold, edit, validate, canonicalize, test, and improve any skill; handrolling skill files is forbidden. USE WHEN create skill,…

    58C
75. Presentation

    Makes talks, slide decks and sales pitches: a read-aloud lecture in Keynote or HTML, a cue-card HTML deck, or a pitch from product docs (value story, talking points, charcoal sket…

    58C
76. Science

    The scientific method for understanding a problem: a goal locked before evidence, plural falsifiable hypotheses, and the cheapest evidence that tells them apart, from a timeboxed…

    58C
77. StoryFilm

    Turns a story markdown file into a narrated animated film, a new reading format where the listener is read to and sees the story as it is told: beats from paragraphs, a bible so e…

    58C
78. StudioLights

    Controls Aputure and amaran studio lights via the amaran Desktop WebSocket API: named scenes, per-light brightness and color temp, save the current state. USE WHEN lights recordin…

    58C
79. Errata

    Front door to Errata, the complaint ledger: file a complaint, bug, feature request, or praise about LifeOS or one of its apps as one JSONL line with context, list recent entries,…

    57C
80. IterativeDepth

    Structured 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 inv…

    57C
81. RootCauseAnalysis

    Structured incident investigation using Five Whys, Fishbone, blameless Postmortem, Fault Tree, Kepner-Tregoe, and FMEA — traces failures to systemic root causes rather than blamin…

    57C
82. BiasCheck

    Three-layer bias analysis of any URL, file, or text: fetches the content and cited studies, then audits data bias, source conflicts, and journalism distortions. USE WHEN bias anal…

    56C
83. ExtractWisdom

    Content-adaptive wisdom extraction (sections built around what the content holds, five depth levels, mandatory contrarian takes) and extract alpha (the N highest-alpha, net-new id…

    56C
84. Simplify

    Research-first simplification of any file, skill, tool, subsystem or codebase against its ideal state: reads its ISA or derives its purpose, maps every dependent (callers, imports…

    56C
85. SystemsThinking

    Structural analysis of complex systems — Iceberg model, Causal Loop feedback diagrams, archetype matching, Meadows leverage points, and concept maps — grounded in the premise that…

    56C
86. Cortex

    LifeOS memory, prior-session recall, and learning capture. USE WHEN capture this learning, document this learning, what did we learn recently, recent learnings, cortex, knowledge,…

    55C
87. DataRefresh

    Keeps your data-backed public sites and their source datasets current: freshness check, source repull, rebuild, gated deploy, live verify. USE WHEN update our data sites, refresh…

    55C
88. Fabric

    Our ideal-state ports of the most-used Fabric patterns, each an intent with its own Assay suite and code checker that beat the upstream prompt head to head (security, reasoning, r…

    54D
89. FirstPrinciples

    Physics-based reasoning framework (Musk methodology) that deconstructs a problem to irreducible fundamental truths, classifies every element as hard constraint, soft constraint, o…

    54D
90. LifeOS

    Install 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…

    54D
91. Migrate

    Intakes external content (notes, CLAUDE.md, Cursor rules, Obsidian/Notion/Apple Notes exports), classifies chunks against the LifeOS taxonomy, and commits with provenance after co…

    54D
92. StateLog

    State journaling from shorthand like M4, H2, CF5 (H overall, M mood, E energy, S sleep, R relationships, F financial, C creativity, CF creative freedom, W workout, K walk, A affir…

    54D
93. Vigil

    Front door to Vigil, the always-on monitoring layer: every subsystem and scheduled job logs events in one format, a five-minute tick routes them by severity to a text, the digest,…

    54D
94. Statvs

    Front door to STATVS (said status), the one append-only record of what happened across LifeOS and every app it runs: checks the record's health, says whether a system, app or site…

    53D
95. Novelty

    Evolutionary explanation-discovery engine for hard-to-vary causal theories of unknown phenomena. USE WHEN develop a new theory, explain a mystery, solve an explanatory gap, discov…

    52D
96. Telos

    Personal TELOS reads and updates goals, beliefs, narratives, and strategies with timestamped backups; Project TELOS analyzes .md/.csv directories for dependencies, bottlenecks, an…

    52D
97. Trim

    Shrinks an always-on LifeOS context file through a human-gated pass: deterministic GC of stale entries, then semantic merges and relocations, never dropping a directive. USE WHEN…

    51D
98. Intents
    27F

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