LifeOS skills

Curated 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 social posts.

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/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.

AI 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, ticking audio, clicking audio, audio clicks, gate artifacts, popping audio. NOT FOR video composition (use Remotion).

Three-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, research synthesis (use Research), entity due diligence.

Drives 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 dashboard itself (cmux feeds it, use Pulse), browser deploy-verification (use Interceptor), or Linux/Windows (cmux is Mac-only — use tmux).

Operate 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, distill, weekly digest, cortex digest, context search, prior work, recall, remember, previous sessions, context recovery, what did we do, find session, search history, resume, pick up where we left off, cold start, yesterday's work, last week, the one about. NOT FOR published-content semantic search across blog/newsletter/X/LinkedIn, or one-shot URL/YouTube ingestion via the Arbol harvester pipeline.

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 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).

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 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).

Manage 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 management.

Assertion-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 (use Hardening), or live UI verification (use Interceptor).

Execute 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, mermaid, STRIDE, sigma rules. NOT FOR multi-agent investigation (Research) or content-adaptive extraction (ExtractWisdom).

Owns 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, discovery interview. NOT FOR creating new skills (use CreateSkill).

Evolutionary 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).

Real 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, flash then blank/page broken, why is this not working/what's happening on the page, authenticated page, bot detection bypass, reproduce bug, drive native app, about to ask the operator to click/navigate/fill a form/log in/approve OAuth, OAuth consent flow, complete a web login, do this in your browser. NOT FOR residential-proxy crawling (BrightData) or social actor scraping (Apify).

Intakes 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 CLAUDE.md, bulk import, Obsidian/Notion/Apple Notes import. NOT FOR single-file edits, conversational interviews, identity edits.

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, discover a mechanism, consciousness, origin, or scientific breakthrough. Also use for multi-cycle creative exploration. NOT FOR a single-pass divergent brainstorm (use BeCreative) or delivery validation alone (use Evals).

Ethical 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 structured due-diligence or company/entity intelligence investigations, or general web research synthesis (use Research).

Meta-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).

Creates 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 (that is video editing, not motion graphics), or audio-only podcast cleaning (use AudioEditor).

Multi-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 that thing, track down, locate, help me find, I can't find X online, can't find it online, source this — never substitute raw WebSearch/WebFetch for a multi-source find/identify/investigate request. NOT FOR people/company/entity deep background, academic papers (use ArXiv), JSON entity extraction, or content-adaptive wisdom extraction (use ExtractWisdom).

Transforms 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 illustrations (use Art), or platform social posts.

The 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).

Discover WHICH new skills you should create, from your own work history plus your satisfaction/frustration signals. Read-only and proposal-only: it surfaces recurring pain that no existing skill, loop, or workflow covers, then hands you a ranked shortlist to build with CreateSkill. It never creates or edits a skill itself. Frustration is a first-class signal (a topic can look 'covered' while you keep hitting the same wall inside it), so it reads low ratings and recurrence markers, not just session topics. USE WHEN should I create a skill, what skills do I need, suggest skills, skill gap, based on my recent work, am I missing a skill, what should I build. NOT FOR creating/validating/testing/optimizing an individual skill (use CreateSkill) — this only decides WHAT to build, not how.

Structural 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).