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 agentmods add skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/upgradenpx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill upgradegit 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/upgrade)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/upgrade"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/danielmiessler/lifeos/upgrade.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00090 | $0.02180 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00045 | $0.01090 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00436 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00218 |
Grade A, and why
Upgrade scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.
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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Customization
Before executing, check for user customizations at:
~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Upgrade/
If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.
🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)
You MUST send this notification BEFORE doing anything else when this skill is invoked.
- Send voice notification:
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"message": "Running the WORKFLOWNAME workflow in the Upgrade skill to ACTION"}' \ > /dev/null 2>&1 & - Output text notification:
Running the **WorkflowName** workflow in the **Upgrade** skill to ACTION...
Upgrade
The ideal state: the system knows what the best people on the internet are saying, doing, and implementing around AI harnesses — Anthropic most importantly — and its configuration improves from that input. A run is done when every worthwhile new technique from the monitored sources has been extracted (quoted, mapped to a specific LifeOS file or component), every candidate has been checked against what the system already has or already decided, and the result reaches the user as tiered, evidence-backed recommendations they can act on immediately.
Signal comes from two directions, and a good run uses both: external (what Anthropic and the best practitioners are shipping) and internal (what the system's own reflections and failure history say is weak). The most valuable recommendations are usually where the two agree.
Workflow Routing
| Workflow | Trigger | File |
|---|---|---|
| Upgrade | "check for upgrades", "check sources", "any updates", "check Anthropic", "check YouTube", "upgrade" | Workflows/Upgrade.md |
| MineReflections | "mine reflections", "check reflections", "what have we learned", "internal improvements", "reflection insights" | Workflows/MineReflections.md |
| AlgorithmUpgrade | "algorithm upgrade", "upgrade algorithm", "improve the algorithm", "algorithm improvements", "fix the algorithm" | Workflows/AlgorithmUpgrade.md |
| ResearchUpgrade | "research this upgrade", "deep dive on [feature]", "further research" | Workflows/ResearchUpgrade.md |
| FindSources | "find upgrade sources", "find new sources", "discover channels" | Workflows/FindSources.md |
What ships with it
9 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.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 94 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A e6a43f37c7ee
Upgrade is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/LifeOS (18,885 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,180 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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