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SkillNo. 013-pass scope oscillation that holds a question constantApertureoscillation
danielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiessler3-pass scope oscillation that holds a question constant while shifting zoom — narrow/tactical, wide/strategic, then synthesis — to surface design tensions, scope recomme…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillNo. 02Curated aphorism collection withAphorismsdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerCurated aphorism collection with CRUD — content-based matching, themed search, thinker research, DB maintenance. Quotes organized by author/theme/context/usage to preven…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillNo. 03Scrapes social platforms, business dataApifydanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerScrapes social platforms, business data, and e-commerce via Apify actors — Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps, Amazon, and web crawls — filterin…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFreeSkill3-pass scope oscillation that holds a question constantApertureoscillationdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiessler3-pass scope oscillation that holds a question constant while shifting zoom — narrow/tactical, wide/strategic, then synthesis — to surface design tensions, scope recomme…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFreeSkillCurated aphorism collection withAphorismsdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerCurated aphorism collection with CRUD — content-based matching, themed search, thinker research, DB maintenance. Quotes organized by author/theme/context/usage to preven…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFreeSkillScrapes social platforms, business dataApifydanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerScrapes social platforms, business data, and e-commerce via Apify actors — Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps, Amazon, and web crawls — filterin…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillStatic visual content across 20+Artdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerStatic visual content across 20+ formats — diagrams, mermaid, infographics, D3 dashboards, comics, icons, wallpaper — via Nano Banana Pro (default), Nano Banana, and Flu…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillSearch and retrieve arXiv academic papers by topic, categorydanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerSearch 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/c…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillWhisper word-level transcription → Claude segmentAudioeditordanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerAI audio editing pipeline: Whisper word-level transcription → Claude segment classification (KEEP/CUT_FILLER/CUT_FALSE_START/CUT_STUTTER/CUT_DEAD_AIR) → ffmpeg with 40ms…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillDivergent ideation and corpus expansion via VerbalizedBecreativedanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerDivergent ideation and corpus expansion via Verbalized Sampling plus extended thinking — single-shot generates several internally diverse candidates and surfaces the str…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillThree-layer bias analysis on any URL, file, orBiascheckdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerThree-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 jour…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillAudits any AI instruction set for over-promptingBitterpillengineeringdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerAudits 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 alr…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
Skill4-tier progressive web scraping that auto-escalates WebFetchBrightdatadanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiessler4-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 c…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
AgentAcademic researcher using Claude's WebSearchClauderesearcherdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerAcademic researcher using Claude's WebSearch. Called BY Research skill workflows only. Excels at multi-query decomposition, parallel search execution, and synthesizing s…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillDrives cmux as an agent cockpit to boot, racedanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerDrives 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-tie…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
AgentRemy - Eccentric, curiosity-driven technical archaeologistCodexresearcherdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerRemy - Eccentric, curiosity-driven technical archaeologist who treats research like treasure hunting. Powered by OpenAI's flagship model via `codex exec` in deep-reasoni…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillOperate Cortex, the LifeOS memorydanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerOperate Cortex, the LifeOS memory system — the typed Knowledge Archive (People, Companies, Ideas, Research with typed related: links) plus recall of prior work sessions,…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillMulti-agent collaborative debate producing visibleCouncildanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerMulti-agent collaborative debate producing visible round-by-round transcripts with real intellectual friction — members are topic-briefed custom agents, run as a 3-round…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillGenerates production-ready TypeScript CLIs via a 3-tierCreateclidanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerGenerates production-ready TypeScript CLIs via a 3-tier template system (manual arg parsing, Commander.js, oclif), each shipping full implementation, docs, package.json,…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillMandatory orchestrator for all LifeOS skillCreateSkilldanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerMandatory orchestrator for all LifeOS skill work — creating, editing, adding a workflow or tool, renaming, validating, or canonicalizing any skill. Handrolling skill fil…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillManage the public daemondanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerManage the public daemon profile — a digital representation of what you're working on. DaemonAggregator reads LifeOS sources (TELOS, KNOWLEDGE, PROJECTS, MEMORY/WORK, id…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillDetects AI-generated writing fourDetectaidanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerDetects AI-generated writing four ways — a heuristic audit against a catalog of known AI patterns, deterministic statistical signals (n-gram entropy, burstiness, repetit…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillAssertion-first AI eval framework aligned to Anthropic'sEvalsdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerAssertion-first AI eval framework aligned to Anthropic's 'Demystifying evals for AI agents' — typed deterministic asserts + a forced-structured LLM judge over an input→a…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillContent-adaptive wisdom extraction that reads content firstExtractwisdomdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerContent-adaptive wisdom extraction that reads content first, detects which wisdom domains are present, and builds custom sections around them, with five depth levels and…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillExecute any of 240+ specialized prompt patterns nativelyFabricdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerExecute any of 240+ specialized prompt patterns natively across Extraction, Summarization, Analysis, Creation, Improvement, Security, Rating. Common: extract_wisdom, cre…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillPhysics-based reasoning framework that deconstructsFirstprinciplesdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerPhysics-based reasoning framework (Musk methodology) that deconstructs a problem to irreducible fundamental truths, classifies every element as hard constraint, soft con…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
AgentOpenAI-family cross-vendor agentForgedanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerOpenAI-family cross-vendor agent — runs OpenAI's flagship coding model via `codex exec` (ID resolved from CROSS_VENDOR in models.ts, never pinned in prose). TWO MODES se…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
AgentGoogle cross-vendor agent running the top Gemini reasoningdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerGoogle cross-vendor agent running the top Gemini reasoning model via LIFEOS/TOOLS/GeminiSearch.ts --pro — a third vendor's opinion on public material, vendor panels and…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
AgentMulti-perspective researcher using Google Gemini with SearchGeminiresearcherdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerMulti-perspective researcher using Google Gemini with Search grounding, via LIFEOS/TOOLS/GeminiSearch.ts (NOT the gemini CLI, which cannot authenticate non-interactively…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
AgentxAI cross-vendor agent running the latest Grok modeldanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerxAI cross-vendor agent running the latest Grok model via LIFEOS/TOOLS/GrokQuery.ts — the PUBLIC-data lane. NON-SENSITIVE TASKS ONLY (hard ceiling, {{PRINCIPAL_NAME}} 202…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillHardens LifeOS tests via property/mutation testingHardeningdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerHardens LifeOS tests via property/mutation testing. USE WHEN harden, hardening, property test, property based testing, PBT, fast-check, mutation test, mutation testing,…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillRenders the current session's outputHTMLdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerRenders the current session's output (analysis, research, red team, report, plan) as an extremely well-designed, self-contained HTML artifact via a deterministic rendere…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillEvolutionary ideation engineIdeatedanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerEvolutionary ideation engine — loop-controlled multi-cycle idea generation through phases of dreaming, cross-domain stealing, recombination, fitness testing, selection,…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillReal Chrome/Brave + macOS Computer Use from inside theInterceptordanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerReal Chrome/Brave + macOS Computer Use from inside the browser — zero CDP fingerprint, real sessions; mandatory for visual deploy verification. Drive clickwork yourself.…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillReads constitutional files, TELOSInterviewdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerEvidence-grounded context refresh: reads constitutional files, TELOS, and CURRENT_STATE/IDEAL_STATE dimension files via TelosFreshness, pulls observed data (Oura sleep/H…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillOwns the Ideal StateIsadanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerOwns 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 checkp…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillStructured multi-angle exploration running 2-8 sequentialIterativedepthdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerStructured multi-angle exploration running 2-8 sequential passes over the same problem, each through a different scientific lens, to surface hidden requirements and edge…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillInstall and onboard a user intoLifeosdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerInstall and onboard a user into LifeOS — the Life Operating System (current state → ideal state via TELOS + the Algorithm). The agentic installer detects your OS + harne…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillGeneric civic intelligence aggregator for any USLocalintelligencedanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerGeneric civic intelligence aggregator for any US city — daily local digest of construction permits, crime, new businesses, public officials, legislation, elections, arre…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillIterative improvement loopdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerIterative improvement loop — refine a target across multiple Algorithm cycles toward ideal state. USE WHEN loop, iterate, refine, multiple passes, keep improving, revisi…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
AgentAnthropic-family deep-analysis agentMaxdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerAnthropic-family deep-analysis agent — the top-rung scrutiny pass added on top of super-sensitive work (public LifeOS releases, security boundaries, irreversible or publ…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillIntakes external contentMigratedanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerIntakes external content, classifies chunks against LifeOS taxonomy, commits with provenance. Sources: .md/.txt, stdin, LifeOS dirs, CLAUDE.md/Cursor/OpenAI Custom Instr…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillEvolutionary explanation-discovery engine for hard-to-varyNoveltydanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerEvolutionary explanation-discovery engine for hard-to-vary causal theories of unknown phenomena. USE WHEN develop a new theory, explain a mystery, solve an explanatory g…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillAutonomous optimization loopOptimizedanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerAutonomous optimization loop — hill-climb any target. Code with metrics, or skills/prompts/agents with LLM-as-judge. USE WHEN optimize, hill climb, improve metric, reduc…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
AgentAva - Investigative analyst using Perplexity API for webPerplexityresearcherdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerAva - Investigative analyst using Perplexity API for web research. Called BY Research skill workflows only. Triple-checks sources, connects disparate information, delive…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillEthical people-finding and identity verificationPrivateinvestigatordanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerEthical people-finding and identity verification via parallel research agents across people-search sites, social media, public records, and reverse phone/email/image/use…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillMeta-prompting standard library for generating, optimizingdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerMeta-prompting standard library for generating, optimizing, and composing prompts programmatically via Standards, Handlebars Templates, and Tools; output is always a pro…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillAdversarial analysis deploying parallel expert agentsRedTeamdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerAdversarial analysis deploying parallel expert agents to stress-test ideas, strategies, and plans — decomposes into atomic claims, attacks them, then steelmans and count…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillMulti-agent web research with mandatory URL verificationdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerMulti-agent web research with mandatory URL verification, confidence-tagged output, and four depth modes (quick to deep investigation). USE WHEN research, do research, q…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillStructured incident investigation using Five Whys, FishboneRootcauseanalysisdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerStructured incident investigation using Five Whys, Fishbone, blameless Postmortem, Fault Tree, Kepner-Tregoe, and FMEA — traces failures to systemic root causes rather t…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillTransforms product documentation into sales-readydanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerTransforms product documentation into sales-ready packages — a story explanation, charcoal gestural sketch art, and talking points — via a narrative-arc pipeline. USE WH…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillThe scientific method as a universal problem-solvingSciencedanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerThe scientific method as a universal problem-solving algorithm — goal-first, plural falsifiable hypotheses, designed experiments, and honest measurement, scaling from TD…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillQuery curated cybersecurity market and company intelligenceSecuritymarketdatadanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerQuery curated cybersecurity market and company intelligence. USE WHEN security market data OR cybersecurity funding OR cyber M&A OR security-company/investor research OR…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillDiscover WHICH new skills you should createSuggestskillsdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerDiscover WHICH new skills you should create, from your own work history plus your satisfaction/frustration signals. Read-only and proposal-only: it surfaces recurring pa…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillStructural analysis of complexSystemsthinkingdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerStructural analysis of complex systems — Iceberg model, Causal Loop feedback diagrams, archetype matching, Meadows leverage points, and concept maps — grounded in the pr…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillInteractive voice-narrated tutorial on whatever the currentTeachdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerInteractive voice-narrated tutorial on whatever the current conversation is about — teaches the topic beat by beat with ASCII diagrams in the terminal while speaking the…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillPersonal TELOS reads and updates goals, beliefs, narrativesdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerDual-context skill: Personal TELOS reads and updates goals, beliefs, narratives, strategies, and more with timestamped backups; Project TELOS analyzes .md/.csv directori…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillDefensive threat modeling and risk management for your ownThreatModeldanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerDefensive threat modeling and risk management for your own estate — map where sensitive data lives across your asset graph, run compromise scenarios (what a hacked asset…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillRead, create, and edit tldraw .tldr canvas filesdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerRead, create, and edit tldraw .tldr canvas files deterministically — sketch hand-drawn-register diagrams (boxes, arrows, sticky notes, frames, text) directly into a canv…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillReduces an always-on LifeOS context file that has grown tooTrimdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerReduces an always-on LifeOS context file that has grown too big via a human-gated pass — deterministic GC of stale entries first, then semantic merges and relocations —…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillImprove LifeOS from what the best practitioners are shippingUpgradedanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerImprove LifeOS from what the best practitioners are shipping around AI harnesses — Anthropic first (changelogs, docs, releases), then trusted creators, trending repos, a…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillAnalyze and update 68 US economic and social indicatorsUsmetricsdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerAnalyze and update 68 US economic and social indicators from five government APIs (FRED, EIA, Treasury, BLS, Census) across 10 categories: GDP, Inflation, Employment, Ho…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillMacOS system performanceVitalsdanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslermacOS system performance diagnostics — see how the machine is running and what's slowing it down: CPU/GPU/memory/energy hogs, thermal throttling, memory and swap pressur…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillDesign and integrate web interfaces via three pathsWebdesigndanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerDesign and integrate web interfaces via three paths: DirectDesign (write design inline with Anthropic frontend-design philosophy — the default workhorse), native /design…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillPersistent world-model harness that stress-tests ideasWorldthreatmodeldanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerPersistent 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 geopoliti…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree
SkillScaffolding that helps a writer build a story they alreadyWritestorydanielmiessler/LifeOS · by danielmiesslerScaffolding 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…★ 19.3k GitHub starsFree