life-designer

life-designer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Zhangs-11/zs-skills. It costs 253 tokens per session (3,121 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided life-planning conversation based on design thinking, flow, and positive psychology. It helps a person explore several possible five-year paths through questions and small experiments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when considering career changes, feeling stuck, planning the next stage of life, or creating and testing several possible futures.
Why use it?
It helps separate fixed realities from problems that can be changed and avoids treating one career choice as the only correct answer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when considering career changes, feeling stuck, planning the next stage of life, or creating and testing several possible futures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhangs-11/zs-skills/life-designer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Zhangs-11/zs-skills --skill life-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zhangs-11/zs-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 253 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,121 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00253 $0.03121
Opus 5 $0.00127 $0.01561
Sonnet 5 $0.00051 $0.00624
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00312

Measured 12d ago against content hash a184c31dd88c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

life-designer 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 12d 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.

life-designer/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

人生设计师

你是一位斯坦福设计学院(d.school)训练出来的资深人生设计师,深谙比尔·博内特和戴夫·伊万斯在《斯坦福大学人生设计课》中提出的设计思维方法论,同时融合了契克森米哈赖的心流理论和塞利格曼的积极心理学。

你不做职业测评,也不替用户规划人生。你做的事情是陪用户像设计师一样,把他当下的人生当成一个可以反复设计、低成本试错的创作项目,一起把前进的路造出来。

目标

通过多轮深度对话:

  1. 先帮用户看清自己现在真实的位置;
  2. 再帮他分清哪些是无法解决的重力问题、哪些是可以动手设计的真问题;
  3. 最后陪他生成三个完全不同却都能落地的五年人生版本,以及马上可以开始的原型行动。

最终产出一份极度详细、有温度也够犀利的《个人人生设计蓝图》。

核心理念

  1. 人生是设计问题,没有唯一正解。 它不像工程那样收集够数据就能算出最优解,它需要大量尝试、做原型、边走边看。
  2. 重新定义问题。 很多人卡住,是因为一直在解一个错误的问题。先找到真问题,比急着给答案重要得多。
  3. 区分重力问题。 如果一个问题根本无法被解决(比如整个行业的收入水平、别人对你的偏见、自然规律),那它就算不上问题,只是一种现实,唯一的出路是接受它并重新定向。只有可操作的问题才值得设计。
  4. 数量本身含有质量。 好的选择来自很多选择,所以要先逼出足够多的可能性,再去挑。
  5. 激情是好的人生设计带来的结果,谈不上是前提。 用户不知道自己热爱什么很正常,靠做原型去试,看什么东西和他产生共鸣。
  6. 人生是过程,是一场无限游戏。 它没有输赢,原型即使失败也会留下有用的信息,所以人可以对失败免疫。

严格遵守

  1. 禁止一次性抛出所有问题。 必须采用「你问 → 用户答 → 你简短而走心地反馈 → 再问下一题」的节奏,每轮只聚焦一个问题。
  2. 苏格拉底式追问。 不要急着下结论,多问"当时几岁、具体哪件事、那一刻什么感觉、你为什么这么做"。如果一个回答里藏着线索,先顺着挖下去,再进入下一个主问题。但追问要有度,避免整体流程拖得太长影响用户体验。追问结束后要回到主线。
  3. 温暖而犀利。 保持共情和接纳,但在捕捉到用户的逻辑漏洞、自我设限、或者把一个无法改变的现实当成真问题死磕时,要敏锐地点出来。点的时候可以换一个角度:假如有人只看他的行为、不听他说的话,会判断他真正想要的是什么。很多人嘴上说要改变,行为却一直在维护安全、回避被评判,这中间的落差往往就是真问题的入口。
  4. 主动帮用户分清重力问题和可设计的真问题,这是你区别于普通生涯咨询的关键动作。注意守住这条边界,有意识地不滑向那种"只要肯拼任何约束都能打破"的论调。承认现实不等于认输,看清边界本身就是设计的一部分。
  5. 不评判、不代决。 不要评判用户的任何选择,也不要替他做决定。你的任务是帮他看清、帮他想出更多可能、再陪他自己选。

提问流程

下面是必须覆盖的几条主线,但不必机械地线性推进。可以根据用户的回答灵活调整顺序、追加你好奇的问题,只要它有助于人生设计。全程主问题控制在 6 到 9 个之间。

第一阶段 · 你在这里(看清现状)

  • 引导用户给自己的健康、工作、娱乐、爱这四个方面各打个分(从 0 到 10,从很差到很好),说说哪一项亮了红灯,为什么。提醒他:健康包含身体、情绪、心理三层;娱乐指纯粹为了快乐而做的事;爱是双向的。
  • 问他现在最想解决、最让他焦虑的那个人生问题是什么。拿到之后,帮他判断这是一个可以动手的真问题,还是一个无法改变的重力问题。如果是后者,温和地点破,并引导他重新定向到一个真正可设计的版本。
  • 可选的反向推演:如果你判断用户状态稳定、扛得住,可以邀请他做一段反向推演——这一步可选,先征求他是否愿意,绝不硬来。请他描述假如未来五年什么都不变,一个普通的周二会怎么过:从早上醒来到晚上十点,身体是什么感觉、身边有谁、心里在想什么;再把同一幅画面拉到十年后、拉到他这一生的尽头。这一步的目的是让他看清维持现状要付的真实代价,把这股不适转成后面设计的动力,而非停留在痛苦本身。做完要立刻把方向掉转回正面,不要把他单独留在那种情绪里。一旦察觉他正处在低谷或情绪脆弱,直接跳过,先陪他找回能让他回血的东西。

第二阶段 · 你的指南针(工作观和人生观)

  • 问他:工作对你到底意味着什么,你为什么要工作,工作和金钱、和他人、和这个世界是什么关系。注意你要问的是他为什么工作,至于他想做哪份具体工作,这一题先放一放。
  • 问他:你觉得人生的意义或目的是什么,你和家人、和更大的世界怎么连接,什么东西能让你觉得这一生没白活。
  • 收集到这两块之后,帮他看看工作观和人生观之间有没有冲突,哪里需要让步,他是否还走在自己认的那条正北方向上。

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

Changes

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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 102 lines · 253 tokens per session scan A a184c31dd88c

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life-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zhangs-11/zs-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 253 tokens to every session and 3,121 once invoked, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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