Set up a durable /lab section in a website (a sidebar shell over design experiments, a tested registry, and host agents-file conventions), or add freezing so decided labs stop breaking as production changes.
Use when authoring, auditing, migrating, installing, or publishing skills and plugins in Nathan’s library; loading repository skills on demand; or reflecting on a session to improve them.
Audit an existing transcript for likely mistranscriptions. Propose vocabulary repairs or interpretations for review before editing, and flag unrecoverable passages.
Save supplied bunx skills output as a repository or individual-skill note in Brain, Nathan’s personal Obsidian vault. Use when capturing a CLI skills listing.
Help the user develop their own writing through questions, fragment mining, shaping drafts, or tightening phrases. Use for writing partner sessions that preserve the user’s authorship.
Add substantive detail from a transcript to an existing meeting or interview note, or scaffold a note when only the transcript exists. Preserve evidence and exact phrases.
Draw out defensible metrics from descriptions of work through questions and explicit estimates. Use when a resume bullet, case study, or pitch needs concrete scale or outcome evidence.
Audit software tests for assertion, fixture, mock, or flakiness problems; choose the test level for a risk; or add meaningful regression coverage for recent changes.
Generate search keywords for images, screenshots, visual references, or typeface specimens. Use for fuzzy retrieval or searchable Eagle metadata; output keywords rather than prose descriptions.
Use when writing a note's description property for recall or retrieval. Summarizes a note's own content; parent-period synthesis belongs to periodic-rollup or the environment's specific rollup workflow.
Use when writing, debugging, auditing, or reorganizing CSS snippets or app themes for Obsidian desktop/mobile, including DOM selectors, CSS variables, platform classes, plugin/theme compatibility, specificity, or cascade conflicts. Excludes hosted Publish,…
Import Granola meetings into Obsidian, or process an imported meeting through a saved transcription audit and reviewed enrichment. Resume after a transcript is pasted or corrections are confirmed.
Create analytical archival summaries of AI conversations, capturing intellectual journeys, key insights, and technical logs. Use when archiving, saving, or documenting a chat session.
Save an archival summary of an AI conversation to Nathan's Obsidian vault, using the Thinking note template and vault folder conventions to capture intellectual journeys, key insights, and technical logs. Use when archiving a chat session to the vault.
Create a topic note grouping related notes under a common theme, with automatic backlinking to source notes. Triggers: 'group these under a topic', 'create topic note for [[A]], [[B]], [[C]]'.
Use when synthesizing child periodic-note descriptions into a parent week, quarter, or year, or compiling project/topic history. Prefer a vault-specific rollup workflow when the environment provides one.
Use when operating Obsidian from the terminal: notes, search, properties, links, tasks, Bases, or plugin development. Uses the app CLI, with notesmd-cli as a headless fallback.
Help with templates/snippets for the Obsidian Templater plugin. Use to help generate Obsidian templates from natural language, understand and debug existing tp.* snippets, and adapt vault notes and workflows to Templater when users mention Templater, tp.*,…
Use when creating, importing, or debugging Obsidian Web Clipper templates: JSON, variables, filters, selectors, interpreter prompts, and URL or schema triggers. Does not handle general scraping.
Use when writing, revising, or auditing READMEs, repo docs, RFCs, PR descriptions, or commit messages, or preparing docs for public release. Agent-facing files such as AGENTS.md belong to writing-for-agents.
Operate tirith, the terminal guard against homograph URLs, ANSI injection, and pipe-to-shell. Use when editing ~/.config/tirith/policy.yaml, debugging a blocked command or paste, choosing trust / allowlist / download-and-run / TIRITH=0, or quieting a noisy…
Use when extracting an actual workflow, user journey, or operational scenario from a conversation into a sequence of actors, state changes, and pain points.
Use when theming or scripting an Obsidian Publish site through publish.css or publish.js, including client-side workarounds. Excludes ordinary Publish usage, desktop themes, and plugins.
Compress wordy language or loosely expressed thinking into a smaller, sharper form without flattening its meaning. Use when revising an explanation, phrase, sentence, paragraph, concept, label, or coined term whose nuance, implication, or texture must survive…
Pick Lucide icons for a concept, UI placement, or vault note. Searches the full Lucide catalog for real, verified icon names. Use when the user says 'what icon for X', 'suggest a Lucide icon', 'pick an icon', or needs an icon for note frontmatter, a button,…
Use when the user asks to learn a concept or understand completed work through stepwise tutoring, checks for understanding, or a saved walkthrough or learning record.
Use alongside bb-cli when coordinating work across bb threads: delegation, ownership, environment boundaries, steering, reports, review, reconciliation, or handoff. bb-cli owns commands; this skill owns collaboration.
Use for person-centered work in Nathan's Brain vault: prepare context from a profile and linked records, create a canonical person note, or reconcile an existing one.
Create well-formatted commits with conventional commit messages. Use when user asks to commit, wants to commit changes, or needs help with commit messages.
Shape product ideas into actionable specs and sprint plans. Use when interviewing about a product plan, breaking specs into sprints, or turning vague ideas into well-scoped work.
Add or revise a project's Keep-a-Changelog-format changelog, including version bumps and change-type groupings. Use when the user says 'update the changelog', 'log this change', or 'bump the changelog' for a project or plugin.
Find and validate startup ideas by mining user complaints, crafting premises, and navigating the idea maze. Use when discovering product opportunities, validating ideas, shaping solutions, researching user pain points, or exploring what to build.
Transcribe audio or video to text with a locally-run speech-to-text model. Use when the user wants a transcript or captions from a recording, wants to run speech-to-text locally instead of a cloud service, or wants to set up or switch their local…
Build Raycast extensions — commands, List/Form/Grid views, hooks like useFetch, AI integration, manifest. Use when the user says 'raycast extension', 'add a raycast command', or is working in a project with @raycast/api and a Raycast manifest.