Skills.
Give your AI a better way to work.
A skill is a set of written instructions that teaches an AI how to do one job the way it should be done: review a pull request, plan a migration, write the release notes.
Install one here and it travels with your account into Claude, Claude Code, Cursor and every other client you sign in with.
Category: AI & models
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check-corpus-readinessSkillAI & models
Checks whether the substacker corpus has enough material to justify a Curator run. Counts published posts, time-gates against the last review, and reports go/no-go with the specific gate that failed. Use before any Curator run, and on cold start to decide whether to propose sections yet. Trigger key
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chef-assistantSkillAI & models
Guides cooking through culinary principles, food science, and flavor architecture rather than rote recipe steps. Covers technique teaching (knife skills, sauces, searing, braising), food science (Maillard reaction, emulsions, brining), flavor troubleshooting (salt/acid/fat/heat balance), menu planni
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citation-form-checkSkillAI & models
Verifies every paper or named research result cited in a substacker draft uses the inline "Author(s), Institution, Year" form per style-guide, not a bare hyperlink or title-alone reference. Flags bare-hyperlink citations and missing-institution attributions. Use whenever the draft references externa
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claim-extractorSkillAI & models
Extracts atomic technical claims from a substacker essay draft, converting flowing intuition-first prose into a numbered list where each item is a statement that could in principle be verified or falsified. Skips non-technical sections (personal anecdote, motivation, call-to-action). Use when the Te
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classify-claimSkillAI & models
Assigns each extracted claim to one of five buckets — simplified-correct, simplified-boundary, wrong, contested, overclaim — with low/medium/high confidence and one-sentence rationale. Classification happens before primary-source verification (which confirms, not invents). Use for every claim from c
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classify-post-to-sectionSkillAI & models
Assigns a substacker draft or published post to the best-fitting section (or to unassigned) based on content + section promises in section-map.md. Used by the Editor on every draft review (to load the right voice overlay) and by the Curator in batch mode. Trigger keywords — classify post, section as
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closer-critiqueSkillAI & models
Evaluates the final paragraph of a substacker draft for compression and closing form — bolded maxim, forward-looking question, or compressed mechanism statement. For series posts (frontmatter series — {slug}), verifies the running scoreboard (P&L, Brier, W-L) is present and updated. Use on every dra
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cluster-corpus-by-themeSkillAI & models
Performs axial-coding-style thematic clustering over the substacker corpus of published posts to surface candidate sections. Uses Braun & Clarke's six-phase thematic analysis — familiarization, initial coding, searching for themes, reviewing themes, defining themes, naming. Reads full bodies, not ti
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code-data-analysis-scaffoldsSkillAI & models
Generates structured scaffolds (frameworks, checklists, templates) for technical work — TDD test suites, exploratory data analysis plans, statistical analysis designs, causal vs predictive modeling objectives, and validation checklists. Use when starting technical work that needs systematic planning
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cognitive-fallacies-guardSkillAI & models
Detects and prevents visual misleads, cognitive biases, and data integrity violations in visualizations, dashboards, reports, and presentations. Audits charts for honesty, diagnoses misinterpretation causes, and provides specific fixes. Invoke when user mentions chartjunk, misleading chart, truncate
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communication-storytellingSkillAI & models
Transforms analysis, data, and complex information into clear, persuasive narratives tailored to specific audiences — executives, customers, investors, or non-technical stakeholders. Provides story structures (Hero's Journey, Problem-Solution-Benefit, Situation-Complication-Resolution) and audience
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company-classification-routingSkillAI & models
Classifies a company and routes it to the correct analytical treatment — life cycle stage, sector type, earnings status, ownership, distress markers, geography — then compiles the hard constraints that follow into classification.json. Use before any valuation begins, when deciding which valuation mo
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conf-abstract-enrichmentSkillAI & models
Thicken a thin or missing conference-session abstract through targeted web research so short, noisy text becomes classifiable — pulling the speaker's recent work, the linked repo or paper, and the company/product to add signal. Every enriched claim carries provenance (source URL + retrieval date) an
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conf-preference-elicitationSkillAI & models
Build a personalized preference profile from a small number of well-chosen, cluster-grounded questions instead of a long survey. Represents the person's interests as an uncertainty region over the theme map, picks the single highest-information-gain choice-based question (contrasting real talks from
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conf-theme-clusteringSkillAI & models
Cluster a conference's event records into a small set of coarse themes with finer sub-clusters, an explicit outlier bucket, and soft (multi-membership) affinities — using the hybrid embed-then-label pipeline (embed abstracts, reduce, density-cluster, then LLM-label the clusters) when embedding libra
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constraint-based-creativitySkillAI & models
Turns limitations into creative fuel by strategically imposing constraints that force novel thinking, break habitual patterns, and reveal unexpected solutions. Covers resource constraints (budget/time/tools), format constraints (length/medium), rule-based constraints, and perspective constraints. Us
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cross-poster-blurbSkillAI & models
Writes a 60-140 word third-person blurb for the Substack cross-post feature, positioned so another newsletter writer can paste it into their cross-post popup without editing. Third-person throughout ("In this piece, Kushal argues…"). No subscriber CTAs. Use as the cross-post arm of the Distribution
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d3-visualizationSkillAI & models
Lets your agent create D3 charts and interactive data visualizations from your data.
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dcf-valuation-engineSkillAI & models
Runs an intrinsic (discounted cash flow) valuation from value drivers — builds the year-by-year forecast with fading growth, margins and reinvestment, closes it with a terminal value, adjusts for failure risk, walks the bridge from operating assets to equity value per share, and runs sensitivity gri
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decision-matrixSkillAI & models
Compares multiple named alternatives against weighted criteria to produce transparent, defensible choices with explicit trade-off analysis. Covers criterion identification, weighting approaches (direct allocation, pairwise comparison, stakeholder averaging), scoring calibration, sensitivity analysis
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decomposition-reconstructionSkillAI & models
Breaks complex systems into atomic components, maps their relationships, and reconstructs them in optimized configurations to identify bottlenecks, critical failure points, and redesign opportunities. Use when dealing with complex systems that need simplification, identifying bottlenecks or critical
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dedupe-against-corpusSkillAI & models
Checks a candidate seed against the existing substacker corpus (seeds, drafts, published) for exact duplicates (sha256 fingerprint) and near-duplicates (title Jaccard, first-200-word Jaccard, shared topic cluster). Exact match exits as SKIPPED. Near-match links via related_seeds rather than creating
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derive-section-voice-overlaySkillAI & models
Derives a draft per-section voice overlay (deltas against substacker global voice-profile) once a section reaches ≥3 published posts with shared voice tells. Writes to shared-context/voices/{slug}.md. Writer reviews and commits. Overlay expresses only the DELTA from global voice — not a full rewrite
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dialectical-mapping-steelmanningSkillAI & models
Applies thesis-antithesis-synthesis reasoning to escape false binary choices by steelmanning opposing positions, mapping their underlying principles and tradeoffs, and synthesizing principled third-way resolutions. Use when debates are trapped in false dichotomies, polarized positions need charitabl
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discovery-interviews-surveysSkillAI & models
Designs structured interview guides, survey instruments, and JTBD probes to learn from users while avoiding common research biases (leading questions, confirmation bias, selection bias). Use when validating product assumptions before building, discovering unmet user needs, understanding customer pro
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domain-research-health-scienceSkillAI & models
Guides clinical and health science research through PICOT question formulation, evidence hierarchy assessment, bias evaluation (Cochrane RoB 2, ROBINS-I), outcome prioritization, and GRADE certainty rating. Use when formulating clinical research questions, evaluating health evidence quality, priorit
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embedding-fusion-strategySkillAI & models
Designs embedding strategies that combine semantic (text-based) and structural (graph-based) information at node, edge, path, and subgraph levels for knowledge graphs. Use when selecting embedding granularity, choosing complementary semantic and structural approaches, designing fusion strategies (co
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estimation-fermiSkillAI & models
Decomposes complex unknowns into estimable components to produce rapid order-of-magnitude answers with bounded uncertainty. Use when making quick estimates (market sizing, resource planning, feasibility checks), bounding unknowns with upper/lower limits, sanity-checking strategic assumptions, or whe
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evaluation-rubricsSkillAI & models
Designs structured scoring tools with explicit criteria, performance scales, and descriptors for consistent, transparent quality assessment. Use when need quality criteria and scoring scales to evaluate work consistently, compare alternatives objectively, set acceptance thresholds, reduce subjective
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expected-valueSkillAI & models
Calculates probability-weighted averages of all possible outcomes to enable rational decisions under uncertainty. Covers scenario identification, probability estimation, payoff quantification, and risk-adjusted interpretation. Use when comparing risky options (investments, product bets, strategic ch
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What is a skill?
A skill is plain text, usually a SKILL.md file and the scripts it refers to, written for an AI rather than for a person. It carries the steps, the house rules and the examples a good answer needs, so you stop pasting the same briefing into every new chat.
54,764 of the 55,196 skills listed here can be served through ahel today, and they come from public repositories. Each one has its own page with the instructions themselves on it, so you can read what a skill will tell your AI to do before you install it.
Install one and every AI you use gets it
Installing a skill adds it to your gateway and turns it on in the same step. Claude Code surfaces it as a slash command; any client can read the full instructions with the skill_read tool.
Nothing is copied into a project folder. The instructions are served from your account, so the same skill is there in every AI you connect, and turning it off removes it from all of them at once.