Reduce oversized LifeOS instruction files while preserving distinct rules. Remove obsolete entries first, then propose approved merges, shorter wording, or relocation to reference files, with size measurements and reversible commits documenting the changes.
- Reducing an oversized CLAUDE.md
- Consolidating overlapping operational rules
- Cleaning up accumulated proposal entries
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Develop fiction from existing ideas, notes, or partial drafts. Organize themes, character changes, plot, setting, relationships, reader knowledge, and prose, then use writer-approved plans to guide drafting and revision from short stories to book series.
- Turning scattered novel notes into a story plan
- Exploring character changes and themes
- Drafting scenes from an approved story bible
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Collect and update 68 US economic and social indicators, then summarize trends over ten, five, two, and one years. Produce a report covering relationships between indicators, unusual patterns, and topics that warrant further research.
- Refreshing US economic and social indicators
- Comparing short- and long-term economic trends
- Examining relationships across prices, jobs, and housing
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Find concrete LifeOS improvements in Anthropic updates, practitioner examples, and internal reflections. Check each candidate against the current setup, previous decisions, and compatibility, then present actionable recommendations tied to specific files or components.
- Checking Anthropic updates for LifeOS improvements
- Finding improvements in internal reflections
- Researching a candidate feature in more detail
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Design web interfaces, build prototypes, and integrate changes into existing apps while respecting their visual rules and components. Choose direct code generation or Claude Code design commands, with an experimental browser canvas option for visual review.
- Improve a landing page within an existing app
- Design a dashboard using existing visual rules
- Sync a codebase with Claude Design
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Test an idea, strategy, or investment against 11 future time horizons, from six months to 50 years. Compare scenarios with probability ranges, identify structural risks, and review or update the underlying world models.
- Testing an investment thesis across time horizons
- Reviewing long-term risks to a business model
- Updating future scenarios after major events
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Inspect Mac performance to find processes using excessive CPU, GPU, memory, or energy. Combine measurements with explanations of known system processes to diagnose slowness, heat, and startup load, then recommend actions without changing system settings.
- Find the cause of a slow Mac
- Investigate loud fans and overheating
- Check memory pressure and swap activity
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Apply over 240 reusable prompt templates to summarize content, extract insights, improve writing, review code, or analyze security threats. It reads each template directly and returns results in the format defined for that task.
- Extract ideas and insights from an article
- Create a concise five-sentence summary
- Improve writing or review code with a selected template
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Analyze a problem by separating fundamental facts from policies and untested assumptions. The skill produces a component breakdown, a constraint table, and a rebuilt solution, helping explain which inherited assumptions may be limiting the available options.
- Breaking down the causes of high costs
- Reviewing requirements inherited from past projects
- Reconsidering a design that has stalled
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Strengthen existing tests with fast-check by checking properties across generated inputs. Find bugs that example tests miss and reduce failing inputs to small, reproducible cases. Property testing is available; the other listed workflows remain planned.
- Checking parser behavior across generated inputs
- Testing serialization and deserialization round trips
- Finding pure functions covered only by example tests
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Examine articles, reports, or pasted text for bias in the data, the producing organization's interests, and the reporting. It seeks cited studies and returns a structured report separating supported findings from editorial interpretation.
- Check whether an article's headline matches the cited study
- Assess survey methods and sponsor conflicts of interest
- Review a PDF report and trace its underlying sources
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Extract useful ideas from videos, podcasts, interviews, and articles, organized into sections tailored to the content. Choose from five depth levels, preserving surprising claims and, at fuller levels, getting essential takeaways and references to explore.
- Extract key insights from a YouTube interview
- Review a podcast at a chosen level of detail
- Organize useful ideas from an article
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Find people and assess identity matches using public information from social media, official records, and reverse lookups. The skill cross-checks independent sources, reports confidence levels, and requires at least three matching identifiers for a high-confidence result.
- Looking for an old friend or former coworker
- Checking public information about an unknown caller
- Finding public accounts linked to a username
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Compare a component's own design needs with the goals of the larger system through three structured passes. The result identifies conflicts, recommends an appropriate scope, and assesses whether the proposed design fits the whole.
- Choosing between a service, a library, and inline code
- Comparing feature requests with product goals
- Checking how new components fit an existing system
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Build and maintain a public profile from LifeOS goals, projects, ideas, and work themes. Rule-based filters remove sensitive details, while preview and approval workflows let you review changes before deploying the profile site.
- Refresh a public profile from LifeOS activity
- Review profile changes before publishing
- Check the current profile section by section
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Install LifeOS into an existing AI agent environment, then use a guided interview to capture current circumstances and goals for the Pulse dashboard. The skill also handles installation checks, updates, and removal.
- Set up LifeOS in an existing AI agent environment
- Capture current circumstances and goals through an interview
- Check installation problems and suggested fixes
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Examine writing for familiar AI patterns, statistical features, Pangram detection scores, and hidden character signatures. Compare drafts against known human writing to interpret the evidence, with explanations and limitations rather than a definitive authorship claim.
- Check a post for common AI writing patterns
- Compare AI detection scores across drafts
- Compare a revision with known human writing
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Develop varied ideas for names, writing angles, and problem solving by exploring five candidates internally and presenting the strongest. It also expands small example collections into diverse datasets for evaluation, training, or testing.
- Finding a distinctive product name
- Developing a fresh angle for a blog post
- Exploring solutions to a technical problem
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Review AI agent instructions for unnecessary rules, contradictions, repetition, and vague wording. Get recommendations on what to remove, merge, clarify, or load only when needed, plus an estimate of savings in tokens, the units models process.
- Cleaning up an overloaded CLAUDE.md
- Finding conflicting rules across instruction files
- Checking for redundancy after trimming instructions
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Use cmux on macOS to organize visible teams of AI agents, send prompts, inspect terminal output, and monitor completion. Set up role-based teams or have several agents investigate the same problem; live operation remains unproven in the supplied material.
- Launch a team to investigate an intermittent test failure
- Have multiple agents investigate the same bug
- Send follow-up prompts to a running agent
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Organize knowledge notes with links that explain their relationships, search saved information, review conflicting claims, and prepare weekly digests. Retrieve earlier work sessions and conversations by topic or date to recover context before continuing a task.
- Find saved knowledge on a topic
- Add source material and update related notes
- Review conflicting claims across notes
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Compare options through a debate among agents given distinct expertise and positions for the topic. Choose a three-round discussion with a visible transcript and synthesis, or a one-round check that presents initial perspectives.
- Compare technical options from several perspectives
- Review an API design with a quick perspective check
- Examine an important decision through structured debate
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Find arXiv papers by topic, research category, or paper ID. Retrieve titles, authors, abstracts, and links, check new submissions, and add AlphaXiv's AI-generated overviews when available to help decide which papers to read.
- Checking new AI and machine learning papers
- Finding papers on a specific research topic
- Looking up a paper by its ID or arXiv URL
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Explore explanations for poorly understood phenomena through repeated hypothesis generation and selection. Compare causal mechanisms, test what happens when components change, and retain distinct candidates with predictions, rival comparisons, and clearly stated unresolved questions.
- Developing hypotheses for an unexplained phenomenon
- Comparing competing causal explanations
- Identifying predictions that distinguish theories
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026