LifeOS is an AI-assisted personal operating system that records a person’s goals, values, context, and current situation to help move them toward a desired future state. It supports work such as building applications, starting businesses, and creative projects. Its catalogue entries extend the system through skills, hooks, agents, and commands.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill artdirectiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOSWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/artdirection)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/artdirection"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/artdirection/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/artdirection"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/artdirection.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00122 | $0.01779 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00049 | $0.00712 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00356 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00178 |
Grade A, and why
ArtDirection scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
ArtDirection
A shared quality loop for artistic deliverables: the Brief defines audience, register, references and bar; a Direction council resolves the visual intent into Direction.md; the domain skill produces the artifact against it; Critique yields two vendors' scores and ranked defects; iteration reaches the bar or reports the shortfall at four rounds; only a passing result reaches Deliver; and Calibrate records the principal's own verdict as evidence for later judge calibration. The domain skill makes the artifact; this skill supplies the quality evidence.
Ideal State
- Nothing artistic reaches the principal or a public surface without a current passing critique from the judge panel bound to the exact bytes delivered. The panel is cross-vendor whenever two approved vendors are reachable; a one-vendor panel may still pass, and its report carries the
vendor_missingflag as weaker evidence. - Every verdict is honest: pass only when the pooled median reaches the bar and each vendor median reaches bar minus 0.5, with no UNKNOWN score or critical defect, a cap hit reported with its shortfall, and an unreachable vendor reported as unavailable rather than as a quality failure.
- Each round names ranked, located defects a producer can fix, judged against the concept-first rubric rather than adjectives.
- A figure's anatomy and mechanics are judged as a defect class: extra or missing limbs, a grip or pose that does not match the object held, or physically impossible motion is a critical defect located by image region or frame, so the critique fails it; the judges read this rule from
References/Rubric.md. - The principal's own scores are kept verbatim as labels, and judges change only through a deliberate calibration, never automatically.
Intent Routing
| Intent | Trigger | File |
|---|---|---|
| Loop | Full quality loop or iterate to the bar | Intents/Loop.md |
| Direction | Art council or new visual direction | Intents/Direction.md |
| Critique | Rate the visuals or inspect a render | Intents/Critique.md |
| Deliver | Hand over a passing artifact | Intents/Deliver.md |
| Calibrate | Record the principal's score and note | Intents/Calibrate.md |
What ships with it
11 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- Intents/Calibrate.md 964 B
- Intents/Critique.md 4.7 KB
- Intents/Deliver.md 1.4 KB
- Intents/Direction.md 1.4 KB
- Intents/Loop.md 2.0 KB
- References/BriefExample.json 982 B
- References/Rubric.md 7.3 KB
- Setup.md 3.7 KB
- Tools/Calibrate.ts 4.5 KB runs code
- Tools/Critique.ts 73 KB runs code
- Tools/Deliver.ts 16 KB runs code
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 10d ago First seen · 77 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 8eae2026bd82
ArtDirection is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/LifeOS (19,717 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,779 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-28.
ArtDirection compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArtDirectiondanielmiessler/LifeOS | Skill | 20k | yesterday | MIT | A | 122 | Claude Code, Codex |
| build-product-and-tool-interfacesEverMind-AI/Raven | Skill | 6.0k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 147 | Claude Code, Codex |
| user-research-synthesismohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills | Skill | 1.5k | yesterday | MIT | A | 114 | Claude Code, Codex |
| dashboardopenonion/connectonion | Skill | 1.5k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 35 | Claude Code, Codex |
| prototypevinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN | Skill | 5.6k | 9d ago | MIT | A | 39 | Claude Code, Codex |
| recipe-front-designshinpr/claude-code-workflows | Skill | 711 | 4d ago | MIT | A | 22 | Claude Code |
| architecture-client-presentationmohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills | Skill | 1.5k | yesterday | MIT | A | 117 | Claude Code |