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.