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
Evaluate AI agent outputs with code checks and model-based grading. Run repeated trials to measure reliability, compare prompts or models, and check whether changes reduce quality, with saved transcripts for reviewing the results.
- Comparing two prompts on the same test cases
- Checking quality after agent configuration changes
- Turning real failures into repeatable evaluation cases
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Gather local news, building permits, elections, legislation, and other civic information for a configured US hometown. The skill combines available sources into a daily JSON digest that Pulse can display in its LOCAL tab.
- Reviewing a daily hometown digest
- Checking council agendas and proposed ordinances
- Tracking construction and business openings
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
Collect social posts, business listings, and product reviews through Apify actors, ready-made data collection tools. Filter results by date, rating, or engagement in code before sending relevant records to the AI for research or lead generation.
- Find competitors' most popular social posts
- Build a contact list of local businesses
- Extract recent negative Amazon reviews
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
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
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
Extract web page content as Markdown from a single URL or a site crawl. When access is blocked, progressively switch from basic fetching to Chrome and Bright Data proxy services, which route requests through other IP addresses.
- Converting a single web page to Markdown
- Extracting content from JavaScript-rendered pages
- Retrieving pages blocked by bot detection
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
Create and maintain LifeOS skills, from initial file structure to validation and effectiveness testing. Update workflows, improve instructions, and refine descriptions so skills activate for appropriate requests, while checking naming conventions and handling of personal data.
- Creating a new LifeOS skill
- Adding workflows or tools to an existing skill
- Checking and correcting skill structure
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
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
Operate Chrome or Brave using signed-in browser sessions to verify deployed pages, reproduce bugs, inspect page structure, and examine errors or network traffic. An optional macOS bridge extends control to native applications and operating system input.
- Verify page appearance after deployment
- Reproduce blank pages and disappearing content
- Inspect console errors and network traffic
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Explore one problem through several distinct perspectives to uncover hidden requirements and edge cases. Turn the findings into testable success criteria, refinements, and failure conditions, stopping when additional perspectives no longer produce new requirements.
- Finding overlooked requirements before starting work
- Reviewing a problem from stakeholders' perspectives
- Exploring failure modes and changes over time
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
Create and improve prompts for agents, workflows, and AI evaluations. Reusable Handlebars templates, which insert data into a fixed structure, help generate consistent instructions from YAML or JSON inputs for use in other tasks.
- Improving prompts for recurring tasks
- Generating agent briefs from templates
- Creating AI evaluation and scoring prompts
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Research topics across multiple sources, cross-check findings, and verify source URLs before producing a report with confidence labels. Choose from quick lookups to iterative investigations that preserve findings, with community sources prioritized for questions about public reactions.
- Compare AI technology trends
- Map a market and its products
- Investigate community reactions
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Analyze recent work history and recurring frustration to identify problems that existing skills or workflows do not address. Receive a ranked shortlist of new skill ideas, with supporting evidence, for deciding what to build next.
- Choosing which skill to build next
- Investigating recurring work frustrations
- Checking whether existing skills cover a problem
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Turn the current conversation topic into an interactive lesson with spoken explanations and text diagrams in the terminal. Answer one question at each step, receive feedback, and check your understanding with a short quiz and recap.
- Understand the work you just completed
- Learn a named topic step by step
- Check your understanding with a quiz
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Maintain personal goals and beliefs with timestamped backups, or analyze project documents to connect problems, goals, strategies, and projects. Turn findings about progress, bottlenecks, and alignment into reports, presentation points, or interactive dashboards.
- Update personal goals while preserving history
- Find project dependencies and bottlenecks
- Prepare key points for a presentation
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Improve writing, prompts, or skills through repeated review cycles that carry forward lessons and rejected approaches. Human feedback guides each pass by default, while saved history supports resuming work and tracking progress.
- Refining a prompt over several passes
- Improving a skill's output quality
- Making diagram instructions more consistent
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Stress-test ideas, strategies, and plans by breaking them into individual claims for parallel expert agents to challenge. Receive the strongest supporting case, surviving counterarguments, and findings ranked by severity with suggested ways to address weaknesses.
- Challenge assumptions in a business strategy
- Find weaknesses in a software architecture proposal
- Prepare strong objections to a pricing decision
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