Arnesto — the agent harness that got out of hand
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Skill Claude CodeCodex
Create dynamic, queryable dashboard views of the Obsidian vault using Obsidian Bases — a native Obsidian feature that turns vault frontmatter into interactive tables, card galleries, and lists. Use this skill when the user says "create a dashboard", "vault dashboard", "show all X as a table", "dynamic view", "create a…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Export the Obsidian wiki's knowledge graph to structured formats for use in external tools. Use this skill when the user says "export wiki", "export graph", "export to JSON", "export to Gephi", "export to Neo4j", "graphml", "visualize wiki", "knowledge graph export", or wants to use their wiki data in another tool.…
Skill Codex
Unified wiki-history-ingest entrypoint for conversation/session sources. Use this when the user says "/wiki-history-ingest claude" or "/wiki-history-ingest codex", or asks to ingest agent history without naming the underlying skill. This router dispatches to the specialized history skill.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Ingest documents into the Obsidian wiki by distilling their knowledge into interconnected wiki pages. Use this skill whenever the user wants to add new sources to their wiki, process a document or directory, import articles, papers, or notes into their knowledge base, or says things like "add this to the wiki"…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Audit and maintain the health of the Obsidian wiki. Use this skill when the user wants to check their wiki for issues, find orphaned pages, detect contradictions, identify stale content, fix broken wikilinks, or perform general maintenance on their knowledge base. Also triggers on "clean up the wiki", "what needs…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Answer questions by searching the compiled Obsidian wiki. Use this skill when the user asks a question about their knowledge base, wants to find information across their wiki, asks "what do I know about X", "find everything related to Y", or wants synthesized answers with citations from their wiki pages. Also use when…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Autonomously research a topic via multi-round web search, synthesize findings, and file structured results into the Obsidian wiki. Use this skill when the user says "/wiki-research [topic]", "research X into my wiki", "file a deep dive on Z in the wiki", "autonomous wiki research on X", or wants comprehensive…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Initialize a new Obsidian wiki vault with the correct structure, special files, and configuration. Use this skill when the user wants to set up a new wiki from scratch, initialize the vault structure, create the .env file, or says things like "set up my wiki", "initialize obsidian", "create a new vault", "get started…
Skill Codex
Show the current state of the wiki — what's been ingested, what's pending, and the delta between sources and wiki content. Use this skill when the user asks "what's the status", "how much is ingested", "what's left to process", "show me the delta", "what changed since last ingest", "wiki dashboard", or wants an…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Systematically discover synthesis opportunities across the Obsidian wiki — pairs or clusters of concepts that co-occur frequently across pages but have no synthesis page connecting them. Creates new synthesis/ pages that draw explicit cross-cutting conclusions. Use when the user says "synthesize my wiki", "create…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Sync the current project's knowledge into the Obsidian wiki. Use this skill from any project when the user says "update wiki", "sync to wiki", "save this to my wiki", "update obsidian", or wants to distill what they've been working on into their knowledge base. This is the cross-project skill that lets you push…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when asked to "working backwards", "PR/FAQ", "Amazon PR/FAQ", "write a press release", "define a new product", or "write a customer-focused PRD". Helps define products by starting with the customer problem and desired outcome before building. The Working Backwards process (developed at Amazon) forces clarity on…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Create new agent skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources. Use when user wants to create, write, or build a new skill.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Bash script style guide. Always use when writing bash scripts, shell scripts, or CLI bash tools.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Writes Claude Code status line scripts. Use when creating, customizing, or debugging statusline configurations.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Review pending changes for tests, maintainability, and project rules. Use when the user asks for code review, review pending changes, or alignment with maintainability and project rules.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Increase test coverage with high-value, behavior-focused tests. Use when the user asks to increase coverage, write tests for untested code, or add high-value tests.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Apply the Mikado Method for safe refactoring via a dependency graph of small steps. Use when the user asks for Mikado Method, safe refactoring, or dependency graph for a large change.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Plan tests for untested code with coverage gaps and risk-based prioritization. Use when the user asks for a test plan for untested code or coverage gaps.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Predict production failures and high-risk paths with a Lean/XP lens. Use when the user asks to predict failures, production risk, or edge cases.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Deep, pragmatic security review with OWASP and threat-modeling lens. Use when the user asks for security review, risk assessment, OWASP, or threat modeling.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Refactor toward simple design and maintainability with ROI-driven prioritization. Use when the user asks to refactor, improve simple design, maintainability, or reduce accidental complexity.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Catalog and prioritize technical debt with a Lean/XP lens; top 5, quick wins, strategic debt. Use when the user asks for technical debt analysis, prioritization, quick wins, or tech debt payoff order.
Skill Claude Code
Tell the agent to zoom out and give broader context or a higher-level perspective. Use when you're unfamiliar with a section of code or need to understand how it fits into the bigger picture.
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