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tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Transform saved links, papers, articles, posts, videos, and reference collections into approachable AI teaching artifacts for later study. Use when a user wants to queue learning material, create a readable explanation from a source, teach a paper or post step by step, or run an interactive tutor that validates…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Inspect an unfamiliar repository, turn a focused Markdown behavior scenario into a deterministic test in the repository's native test stack, run it, and preserve traceability between intent and code. Use when asked to add scenario tests, compile acceptance criteria or Given/When/Then Markdown into executable tests…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Apply a disciplined engineering workflow to any code change. Use whenever implementing a feature, fixing a bug, or refactoring — before writing code, not after. Walks orient → baseline → smallest change → test → verify → self-review, and enforces language-agnostic hard gates (don't mass-reformat, keep the linter and…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Create truthful, human-centered marketing campaigns for an app or product, including positioning, channel copy, original artwork, editable layouts, README banners, and selective website integration. Use when asked to make launch materials, promotional artwork, social assets, campaign kits, ads, or marketing content…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Create or update a complete repository skill from a user's idea, including the workflow instructions, references, scripts or assets, agent metadata, skill-card artwork, cinematic banner artwork, README links, discovery metadata, and validation. Use when the user asks to create a new skill, add a skill to this…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Provider-neutral deep-research orchestration for brainstorming, technology choices, comparisons, and state-of-the-art surveys. The Research Lead makes scope and decision calls while native subagents scout, search, verify, synthesize, audit, write, and commit every research artifact.
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when the user asks to run or continue an autonomous build: turn a goal into an approved plan, dispatch implementation and review agents, and finish with one pull request. The Lead is a provider-neutral orchestrator that makes decisions but never writes code, edits files, runs commands, or reviews its own work.
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Indie maker playbook for bootstrapped apps inspired by Pieter Levels' MAKE: The Indie Maker Blueprint. Use when a user is starting or sizing an app idea, choosing what to build next, building a minimal product, preparing a launch, diagnosing stalled growth, deciding pricing or monetization, automating operations…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Map the big picture around a topic or software repository by identifying its boundaries, layers, actors, components, relationships, flows, history, fault lines, and open questions, then explain how the pieces fit together and where to look next. Use when a user asks to understand a whole field, domain, technology…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Generate, refine, compare, and when needed validate distinctive names for startups, AI products, developer tools, protocols, open-source projects, apps, product families, local businesses, services, companies, nonprofits, and other organizations. Use when asked to name or rename a business, brand, product, venture…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Use when an agent is asked to draft, rewrite, edit, review, polish, copyedit, simplify, humanize, or create written prose, including creative writing, essays, posts, scripts, speeches, emails, documentation, product copy, and other style-sensitive text. Apply George Orwell's six rules and ASD-STE100 Simplified…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Run a cumulative daily or retrospective sweep of research papers on a chosen topic, audit their claims, methods, integrity signals, and independent support, then identify overlooked but feasible project or business opportunities in a detailed source-grounded report. Use when asked to monitor papers every day, mine…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Analyze a software repository at the latest remote main commit and turn its implemented architecture into a citation-backed interactive isometric system map with a legend, selectable infrastructure buildings, dependency and payload flows, and plain-language learner explanations. For eligible public GitHub…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Inspect an unfamiliar repository, interpret a broad Markdown user journey at runtime, operate the real product through its supported web, API, CLI, desktop, or mobile surface, and produce an auditable pass, fail, or blocked judgment with screenshots, logs, recordings, and a step timeline when available. Use when asked…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Profile and debug Hermes sessions from their JSONL transcripts. Find a session and its subagents, build a queryable event table, summarize the work as a hierarchical table of contents, break down wall time, inference, tools, tokens, and estimated cost per agent, identify errors and improvement opportunities, and…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Codex
Teach any topic deeply from first principles and build evidence-based paths toward exceptional capability. Use when a user asks to understand, explain, learn, or deep-dive into a topic; asks why or how something works, why it matters, how alternatives compare, or what different perspectives reveal; requests current…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Run an honest market-fit and viability audit of any project or idea and produce a decision doc, not code. Use when someone asks "is this viable as a business", "audit the market fit", "make the case and compare to competitors", "should I apply to YC or bootstrap", or wants to validate a project, product, or market…
tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Skill Claude Code
Write and ship a blog post for your project that reads like a human wrote it and pulls SEO traffic to your site. Use when a contributor wants to draft, edit, or publish a blog post, add a post to the site, write about the project for search/traction, or make an existing draft sound less like AI. Enforces the house…
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