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 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
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
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 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
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
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
Import existing notes and agent instructions into LifeOS by splitting content into sections and proposing destinations. Review uncertain classifications, approve selected groups, and retain source information alongside the imported material.
- Importing Obsidian or Notion exports into LifeOS
- Moving notes from an older LifeOS installation
- Reviewing and importing CLAUDE.md or Cursor rules
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
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
Create editable tldraw canvases with boxes, arrows, sticky notes, frames, and text. Read an existing canvas to group related ideas and rearrange shapes, then open the resulting file in a compatible editor for further adjustments.
- Sketch a process diagram
- Group related sticky notes
- Read text and positions from a canvas
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
Investigate incidents and recurring defects with structured methods such as Five Whys and Fishbone cause maps. Identify multiple contributing conditions, build a blame-free account of what happened, and propose practical changes to prevent similar failures.
- Review a production outage
- Investigate recurring defects
- Compare failing and working environments
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
Find quotes that fit a text’s themes, with attribution and a short reason for each suggestion. Add sourced quotes, research thinkers, and organize a quote collection by theme and usage history to avoid repetition.
- Finding a fitting quote for a newsletter
- Saving sourced quotes without duplicates
- Researching a thinker’s quotes by theme
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
Improve code, prompts, skills, or agent definitions through repeated changes and evaluation. Measure numerical targets such as latency or size, or use an LLM to judge pass-or-fail criteria, keeping changes that improve the result.
- Improving page load performance
- Reducing build output size
- Refining prompts against evaluation criteria
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Turn completed research, analysis, reports, or plans from the current session into a self-contained HTML artifact. A renderer controls layout, typography, and color, using structured content and a choice of two visual styles.
- Turn research findings into an HTML artifact
- Format a cost analysis with tables and callouts
- Present investigation findings as a designed document
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Review stored LifeOS goals and personal context against available records such as sleep, app usage, work, and expenses. The skill prioritizes stale information and contradictions, proposes corrections for approval, and reviews the gap between current and ideal states.
- Review outdated goals and personal context
- Compare recorded circumstances with observed activity
- Revisit the gap between current circumstances and goals
danielmiessler/LifeOS☆ 19.5KUpdated Sep 4, 2026
Investigate recurring problems by mapping feedback loops, the cycles through which effects influence their causes. Identify underlying structures, match known patterns, and assess where changes could help and what unintended effects they might produce.
- Investigating recurring incidents
- Understanding coordination problems as teams grow
- Assessing unintended effects before changing a policy
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
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
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
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