Free, operator-built Claude Code skills and open-source projects — the same ones I rely on inside my own work. No signup. Fork them, adapt them, ship them. If one saves you a meeting, send it to a friend who needs it more.
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Give your AI a long-term memory, built for people who talk more than they type. One prompt turns Claude Code plus a plain-text vault into a voice-first, self-organizing second brain — it files, links, and recalls so you don't have to.
Real numbers from the vault in the demo above — fully cross-linked, self-organized, recalled by voice.
Download, drop into your skills folder, and invoke in plain language. Each one is a framework I actually use — packaged so it argues back instead of agreeing.
Pressure-test a business idea, offer, or product through Roger Martin and A.G. Lafley's choice cascade. 12-section output, a Proceed / Narrow / Park / Kill verdict, and zero fake encouragement.
Build a voice profile from your pre-AI writing so AI drafts in your real voice — not generic AI prose. Point it at your old posts and essays; get a reusable profile that survives every future draft.
Local-first visibility into your own usage — which skills earn their place in context, and where the tokens and dollars actually go. Everything runs on your machine; nothing is uploaded.
Every enabled skill taxes your context window every session — used or not. It reads your local transcripts, shows real usage counts and token cost per skill, and gives each one a Keep / Modernize / Turn off / Prune verdict. Runs entirely on your machine; nothing is uploaded.
Local-first token and cost visibility. A zero-dependency cc-usage CLI prints spend sliced by session, agent, skill, MCP server, or model — plus a one-command live Grafana dashboard with Max Plan Leverage and burn-rate panels that update as you build.
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