Q Claude Skills

A growing collection of Claude skills built around one idea: stop prompting AI and start building systems with it.

Every skill in this repo comes from a real workflow I use or teach. Each one is designed to be installed once and used forever. As I make new content I add new skills here.

New here? Start with three things

If I were starting over with Claude today, /start is the three things I’d build first: a Claude that rewrites its own rules, one prompt that splits into a fleet of agents, and an agent that runs on your machine and texts you. Each links to a working starter.

Want to build your own? docs/make-your-own-skill.md walks you through it.

Want it to work in Codex, Cursor and Copilot too? docs/write-a-skill.md covers the open format and where each agent looks.

Who this is for

Anyone who uses Claude and wants to get more out of it. No coding experience needed.

What’s inside

Thinking

For when you need to understand a problem before you try to solve it.

• Belief Updater — maintains three competing hypotheses and updates them as new evidence comes in
• Blind Spot Finder — finds what is missing from your thinking entirely, not a critique of what you said but a map of what you did not say
• Complexity Mapper — maps all the moving parts of a problem and finds the single lever that creates the most change
• The Five Chains — five four-message sequences for getting Claude past its first answer, every message written out ready to paste
• Five 2026 techniques: Fail, Taste, True, Flip and Bio, five three-prompt chains for finding the failure already underway, your unwritten rules, the assumption a plan rests on, the weaker side of an argument, and who your last month says you are

The thinking skill works in Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

Decision Making

For when you need to choose a path and you are too close to see it clearly.

• Parallel Conversations — runs the same idea through three completely different perspectives simultaneously
• Assumption Audit — surfaces every assumption your thinking is based on and stress tests each one
• Time Machine — shows you what your future self would think about this decision in 6 months, 1 year, and 5 years

Research

For when you need to validate an idea or understand a space before committing to it.

• Adversarial Room — builds the strongest possible case against your idea so you find the fatal flaw before it costs you
• Premortem — assumes the project already failed and works backwards to explain why
• Steelman — builds the strongest possible version of any argument so you engage with what is actually true

Building

For when you are ready to execute and need a system not just a plan.

• Weekly Planning — builds a complete weekly plan from your actual context, not generic time blocks