A cross-tool field guide to how I build with AI, with practical workflows and portable skills from research to maintenance.
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Skill Claude CodeCodex
Create, revise, migrate, or audit portable Agent Skills packages. Use when the user requests skill authoring or explicitly invokes this skill to review instructions, structure, or portability.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when the requested outcome is reading, drafting, creating, or surgically updating GitHub or Linear issue records; changing their native parent, sub-issue, or blocker relationships and assessing readiness; checking completion against Verification evidence; or reversibly closing or canceling an issue. Do not use for…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when the user asks to capture a relationship interaction, prepare for one person, clean up or reconstruct Person notes, review overdue relationships, discover who could help with current work, when another workflow finds a possible relationship effect, or when the user later confirms or revises a required catch-up…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when the user wants to complete a daily journal or wind down, requests a daily chief-of-staff review or a weekly or quarterly review, asks to set up, list, add, update, or remove chief-of-staff source mappings, approves, resumes, or otherwise decides visible chief-of-staff actions, or another workflow requests…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use only when the user explicitly invokes repo-gardener by name, including the /repo-gardener and $repo-gardener forms, or asks to run, continue, set up, or explain the repository gardening automation or the nightly gardener. Requests about maintenance, CI, repository health, trackers, maintenance lanes, or issues…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when the user asks to review, process, import, catch up on, or check for newly completed meetings from a configured meeting source, including Granola; when a scheduled post-meeting review invokes it; or when the user later revisits, resumes, approves, edits, defers, skips, or otherwise decides visible…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use only for requests whose deliverable is a full research briefing, a STORM-style investigation, or an evidence review across multiple independent perspectives. The work compares competing evidence, maps contradictions and blind spots, and supports decisions, investments, negotiations, long-form writing…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when the user asks to simplify, right-size, identify overengineering, compare with a stated smaller alternative, choose the smallest viable approach, check for simplicity as well, or test whether reuse removes the need for change on a named architecture, design, area, plan, technical choice, or code-level…
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