
Extract structured wisdom, insights, and actionable takeaways from any content — podcasts, articles, videos, transcripts, books, or conversations. Use this skill whenever the user asks to "extract wisdom", "summarize insights", "pull out key ideas", "what are the takeaways", "extract the best parts", "distill this content", "what did I learn from this", or provides a transcript/article and asks for a structured breakdown. Also trigger when the user pastes or references long-form content and wants the signal extracted from the noise — even if they don't use the word "wisdom" specifically. Inspired by Daniel Miessler's Fabric pattern.
Turn a raw idea, source tweet, video transcript, feature announcement, or rough outline into a polished video script for Ray's Agentic Coding School classes. Use this skill whenever the user says "write a class script", "turn this into a class video", "script this for the [business/claude-code/prompt-engineering/skills/context-engineering/techniques/claude-chat/claude-cowork/correction] class", "draft an agentic coding school video", or whenever the user is staging content in `/Users/ray/Desktop/ray-os/projects/agentic-coding-school/to-film/` and wants it written up. Default to this skill for any new file destined for the `to-film/` tree, even if the user does not name it explicitly. Produces an essay-style markdown script with the correct frontmatter, horizontal rules between sections, inline image embed placeholders, and a Demo section, written in Ray's direct second-person voice.
Remove signs of AI-generated writing from text. Use when editing or reviewing text to make it sound more natural and human-written. Based on Wikipedia's comprehensive "Signs of AI writing" guide. Detects and fixes patterns including: inflated symbolism, promotional language, superficial -ing analyses, vague attributions, em dash overuse, rule of three, AI vocabulary words, negative parallelisms, and excessive conjunctive phrases.
Reverse-engineer Claude Code's own binary to explain how hidden/undocumented features work. Use when the user asks about a Claude Code feature, feature flag, hidden toggle, internal prompt, or wants to understand how something works under the hood — especially unreleased, gated, or undocumented functionality. Also trigger when the user says "how does X work in the binary", "what does this feature flag do", "find the prompt for X", "reverse engineer X", or mentions a specific codename/flag. Do NOT use for general Claude API questions or for features that are well-documented.
Orchestrator skill — takes a YouTube video and cascades it across platforms by calling other skills. Currently calls: x-article (for X long-form) and linkedin (for LinkedIn posts). Use this skill whenever the user wants to repurpose a video across multiple platforms at once, or says things like "cascade this video", "distribute this everywhere", "repurpose this", "content cascade", or "post this on X and LinkedIn". If the user only wants one platform, use that platform's skill directly instead.
Scout trending GitHub repos in the AI/dev tools space and deliver pre-digested content briefs with velocity data. Use this skill whenever the user wants to check trending repos, find new open-source AI tools, scout GitHub for video ideas, or says things like "what's trending on GitHub", "any new repos", "check GitHub", "scout GitHub", or "what's new in open source". Also triggers on "monitor layer", "input layer", or "fountainhead" when GitHub is relevant.
Scout Hacker News for trending AI and developer discussions, launches, and debates that could become video content. Use this skill whenever the user wants to check Hacker News, find trending tech discussions, scout HN for video ideas, or says things like "what's on HN", "check Hacker News", "anything trending on HN", "scout Hacker News", or "what are devs talking about". Also triggers on "monitor layer", "input layer", or "fountainhead" when Hacker News is relevant.
Clean up unreferenced images in Obsidian vault folders. Deletes unused images, renames excalidraw files with descriptive names based on image content (using vision), and moves everything to vault root images/ folder. Use after picking favorites from excalidraw-gen batches. Triggers on "clean up images", "delete unused images", "tidy up images", "image cleanup", or "/image-cleanup".
Show what to work on next by reading the Dashboard and following links to project boards and corrections. Use this skill whenever the user asks "what should I work on", "what's next", "show me my queue", "what's in progress", or wants a quick view of active tasks across all projects. Also triggers on /next-up.
YouTube data utility — fetch transcripts, metadata, thumbnails, and search for videos. Wraps the Supadata API and yt-dlp into a single CLI tool. Use whenever you need YouTube data like transcripts, video metadata, thumbnail images, or need to search YouTube for videos matching a query. Triggers on any YouTube data fetching need from other skills or direct user requests.
# /triage — Inbox Triage ## Description Scan all connected communication channels, prioritize items by urgency, and draft responses in your voice. Clear your inbox in minutes. ## Arguments - `quick` — Tier 1 items only, no drafts (fastest) - `digest` — Full scan with summaries, drafts for Tier 1-2 - (no argument) — Full scan with drafts for everything actionable ## Instructions You are running inbox triage for {{YOUR_NAME}}. The goal is to process all incoming messages quickly and surface wh
Monitor Twitter/X for trending AI and developer tool discussions, score them, and deliver pre-digested content briefs. Use this skill whenever the user wants to find trending topics on Twitter, check what people are talking about in AI/tech, scout for video ideas from Twitter, or says things like "what's trending", "anything new on Twitter", "find me something to talk about", "scout Twitter", or "what are people saying about X". Also triggers on "monitor layer", "input layer", or "fountainhead" when Twitter is relevant.
Edit raw screen recording videos with synced audio. Removes repeated takes, false starts, silence, filler, and [MUSIC] tags to produce a clean final cut. Use when the user provides a raw/unedited MP4 video file and wants it edited down. Triggers on: "edit this video", "cut this video", providing a raw MP4 for editing, or any request to remove bad takes from a recording.
Generate excalidraw-style explanation images using Gemini API. Use when the user wants to create visual explanations, diagrams, or illustrations in the hand-drawn excalidraw aesthetic. Supports parallel generation of multiple variations with configurable timeout. Triggers on requests like "generate an excalidraw image", "create a visual explanation", "make a diagram for [concept]", or "illustrate [topic] in excalidraw style".
All LinkedIn tasks — writing posts, checking post performance, browsing the feed, or analyzing competitors. Triggers on any mention of LinkedIn, including "write a LinkedIn post", "check my LinkedIn", "how did my posts do", "LinkedIn competitors", "post on LinkedIn", "browse LinkedIn feed", or any LinkedIn-related request. Also triggers on "check post engagement", "update post metrics", or reviewing social media performance.
Write personal newsletters in a conversational, essay-style format inspired by Ali Abdaal's style. Use when the user wants to write a newsletter issue, draft an email to their list, write a LifeNotes-style essay, or asks for help with newsletter writing. Triggers on requests like "write a newsletter", "draft a newsletter about...", "help me write my weekly email", "newsletter style", or when the user provides a topic and wants it turned into a newsletter format.