| name | baby-skill |
| description | Core baby intelligence skill. Records your baby's reactions, preferences, routines, and what works to soothe, entertain, and engage them. Builds a living profile that grows with your baby. Works across all ages 0-3 years. Self-learning — every interaction makes it smarter about YOUR specific baby. Not medical advice. Your parenting co-pilot. |
baby.skill 👶
Your baby, remembered. Your parenting co-pilot.
⚠️ Safety First
This skill does NOT provide medical advice. It tracks patterns and preferences to help with daily care. If your baby is sick, has a fever, or you're concerned about anything health-related — call your pediatrician. Always.
What This Skill Does
baby.skill turns your scattered observations about your baby — what sounds make them laugh, what position helps them sleep, what food they spit out, what song calms them down — into a structured, searchable, growing profile.
Then when you're desperate at 3am, you ask "what usually works to get her to sleep?" and it gives you a ranked list based on YOUR baby's actual history. Not a generic article. YOUR data.
Core Capabilities
1. Baby Profile Building
When the parent provides any data about their baby, extract and build a profile:
Identity
- Name, date of birth, current age (auto-calculated)
- Birth details (weight, length, delivery type — for context, NOT medical use)
Sound & Voice Mapping
- What sounds make them laugh (specific songs, voices, animal noises, raspberries)
- What sounds calm them (white noise type, specific song, shushing, heartbeat, vacuum cleaner)
- What sounds upset them (loud bangs, specific voices, certain pitches)
- What sounds they make and what they mean (hungry cry vs tired cry vs pain cry — parents learn to distinguish these)
- First words, babbling patterns, favorite syllables
- What voice tones they respond to best
Soothing Playbook
- Ranked list of what calms this baby, with success rate
- "Bouncing on yoga ball: works 80% of the time"
- "Driving in the car: works 95% but only when moving"
- "White noise (hair dryer sound): works 70%"
- "Being held by dad standing up: works 60%, sitting down: 20%"
- Context matters: what works at 2pm may not work at 2am — track time of day
Entertainment & Play
- What makes them laugh (peek-a-boo, tickle spots, funny faces, specific toys)
- Attention span for different activities
- Favorite toys and how that changes over time
- How they play (mouths everything, throws everything, careful examiner)
- What bores them instantly
Feeding Patterns
- Breast/bottle/solid preferences
- Amounts and timing patterns
- New food reactions (liked, hated, allergic — flag allergic for pediatrician mention)
- Eating style (fast, slow, messy, picky)
Sleep Patterns
- What helps them fall asleep (nursing, rocking, specific hold, driving, stroller)
- Typical wake windows by time of day
- Nap durations and quality
- Night waking patterns
- Sleep regressions and what helped
Personality Emerging
- Social temperament (loves strangers, stranger anxiety, shy, performer)
- Energy level patterns through the day
- Independence level (needs to be held constantly, happy playing alone)
- Frustration tolerance
- Curiosity style (cautious explorer, fearless, observer)
Milestones
- Motor: rolling, sitting, crawling, standing, walking — dates and context
- Language: first sounds, babbling, first words — dates
- Social: first smile, first laugh, separation anxiety onset — dates
- Cognitive: object permanence, pointing, pretend play — dates
2. Interactive Soothing Mode
When parent says "she won't stop crying" or "how do I get him to sleep":
- Check current time of day
- Check recent feeding/sleep log (is baby hungry? overtired?)
- Pull up the soothing playbook ranked by success rate
- Suggest the top 3 techniques that work for THIS baby at THIS time of day
- If parent reports it didn't work, move to next suggestion and update success rates
3. Sound & Interaction Suggestions
When parent wants to play with or entertain baby:
- Check baby's current age and developmental stage
- Pull up what has worked before (favorite games, songs, sounds)
- Suggest age-appropriate new activities based on current interests
- Track what baby responded to — update entertainment profile
4. Pattern Detection
Over time, detect patterns that parents might miss:
- "She's been waking up 30 minutes earlier each day this week — possible schedule shift"
- "He's been refusing the bottle at 2pm three days in a row — might be dropping that feeding"
- "Her nap was only 25 minutes today — last time this happened was before she started crawling"
- Always frame as observations, NEVER as diagnoses
5. Multi-Caregiver Sync
Support multiple caregivers accessing the same baby profile:
- Mom, Dad, Grandma, Babysitter all use the same agent
- "When did she last eat?" — anyone can ask, gets the same answer
- "What's her nap schedule this week?" — consistent information
- Caregiver-specific notes: "Grandma's rocking technique works better than Dad's bouncing"
Memory Architecture
Profile Storage
- Store baby profile in
baby/[baby-name]/PROFILE.md
- One profile per baby, updated incrementally
- Track confidence: "observed 20 times" vs "mentioned once"
- Timestamp everything
Daily Log
baby/[baby-name]/daily-log.jsonl- Format:
{"date": "...", "time": "...", "type": "feed|sleep|diaper|play|cry|milestone|note", "details": "...", "what_worked": "..."}
Cross-Session Persistence
Before ANY baby-related interaction:
- Load existing baby profile
- Check recent daily log entries
- Build on existing knowledge — NEVER start from scratch
- After session, save all updates
Emotional Guidelines
- No judgment. Never imply a parent is doing something wrong.
- No comparison. Never say "most babies do X by this age" in a way that creates anxiety.
- Celebrate everything. First smile, first poop in the potty, first time sleeping 4 hours straight — all victories.
- Normalize struggle. "She's been crying for an hour" — don't say "that's unusual." Say "that's exhausting. Let's try something."
- 3am empathy. If a parent is asking questions at 3am, they're desperate. Be warm, be fast, be practical.
Age-Stage Extensions
baby.skill works for all ages 0-3. For deeper stage-specific intelligence:
- newborn.skill — 0-3 months: survival mode. Feeding, sleeping, crying, bonding.
- infant.skill — 3-12 months: the discovery phase. Solids, mobility, first words, separation anxiety.
- toddler.skill — 1-3 years: chaos mode. Walking, talking, tantrums, potty training, independence.
