makerskills

AI agent skills for the personal operator's craft. Decisions, research, second-brain workflows, content rotation, scenario modeling, CFO cadence, domain hunts, and the meta-skills to author more.

Built for founders and indie operators. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other Agent Skills hosts.

Site: maker-skills.com

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Install

# In Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add coreyhaines31/makerskills
/plugin install makerskills@makerskills

Or symlink for local dev:

git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills ~/code/makerskills
ln -s ~/code/makerskills ~/.claude/plugins/makerskills

See INSTALL.md for env vars, personal-config setup, and runtime dependencies.

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Getting started — 5-minute path

New to the plugin? Do these in order. Everything else can wait until you need it.

1. Install the plugin (above), then set the base env var in ~/.zshenv:

export MAKERSKILLS_CONFIG="$HOME/.config/makerskills"

Reload your shell.

2. Run your first skill — start with decide. No config required:

/decide

It'll ask what decision you're facing, pick the right questions from the 37signals framework, and archive the result with a revisit date. That's the first-touch experience: any skill in this plugin. Structured input → structured output → written to disk.

3. Read one SKILL.md to see the pattern:

open ~/code/makerskills/skills/decide/SKILL.md

Each skill is a workflow doc — you can invoke via /decide OR read the SKILL.md and run the steps by hand. The plugin is documentation-first; the automation is a side effect.

4. Try one more skill that involves personal config, so you understand the pattern:

/paste twitter

It'll read your clipboard, strip formatting, warn if over 280 chars, and copy back the cleaned output. First invocation may prompt you to install pbcopy-adjacent deps if missing. No config file needed — this is a pure utility.

5. Now branch out. Skim The 22 skills below and pick one that maps to a workflow you're already doing manually. That's the highest-leverage adoption path.

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Which skill do I invoke when?

Routing table for common operator jobs. Match your intent → skill.

I want to...	Skill
Think through a decision with a real fork	decide
Break through a wall ("this seems impossible")	unstuck
Get a board of famous founders to weigh in	maker-council
Pressure-test a new business or product idea	business-brainstorm
Research a topic with citations	deep-research
Find an available .com for a new project	domain
Watch known sources daily and feed the good stuff into my brain	radar
Capture / query / lint my personal knowledge base	second-brain
Same but for a team-shared knowledge base	company-brain
Extract notes / highlights / summaries from a book	read-book
Extract a transcript or key moments from a video	watch-video
Turn a call transcript or client message into issues + reply	ingest
Fetch any social post by URL as structured data	social-fetch
Plan / draft social content rotation across a portfolio	jab-hook
Draft, update, convert, or export a slide deck	slide-deck
Clean terminal output for Slack / LinkedIn / X / Notion etc.	paste
Manage projects across businesses (kanban)	pm
Model personal financial scenarios (house, cash flow, etc.)	personal-cfo
Run monthly / weekly CFO for a company or agency	company-cfo
Create, adapt, or update a skill	skillify
Wire up an integration / API / MCP into a project	toolify
Set up an agent loop or scheduled task	loopify

Not sure between two? The skill's SKILL.md description always includes trigger phrases and disambiguation from adjacent skills.

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The 22 skills

Meta — extend Claude Code (the -ify trifecta)

Skill	What
skillify	Create, adapt, or update a skill in any sibling repo. Three modes: CREATE (from-chat / from-video / from-dump / from-scratch), ADAPT (port external skill with license check + attribution), UPDATE (improve existing skills with cross-skill propagation + semver discipline), TEST (role-play users through a skill and judge transcripts against a rubric).
toolify	Wire up an integration, API, MCP server, or third-party service into a Next.js or Rails project. Interactive wizard for auth, env vars, client wrapper, webhook handling, and smoke-test.
loopify	Set up an agent loop, cron-scheduled task, or recurring workflow. Judgment layer on top of ScheduleWakeup / CronCreate / /loop — picks pattern (dynamic / cron / one-shot), tunes delay for cache windows, enforces idempotency + bail-out conditions.

Decision & strategy

Skill	What
decide	37signals decision framework (38 questions + house additions like Q39 opportunity cost, triaged to 6–8 per decision). Archives with revisit dates.
[business-brainstorm](./skills/business-brainstorm/SK