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
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.
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 19 skills below and pick one that maps to a workflow you're already doing manually. That's the highest-leverage adoption path.
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.
The 19 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). |
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 |
Pressure-test a new business or product on 9 dimensions. Composes with deep-research + domain. |
domain |
11-step .com domain hunt on Laura Roeder's "availability-first, never fall in love with a name" methodology. Multi-tool ensemble: Vercel CLI + whois (per-TLD) + Domainr API + Namecheap API + rdap.org (modern TLDs) + agent-browser for USPTO trademark screening + aftermarket click-throughs (HugeDomains / Afternic / Sedo / Dan). Handles bare-word + prefix/suffix brainstorming, budget filtering, negotiation guidance, and social handle checks. |
deep-research |
Multi-source research with citations + archive. WebSearch, WebFetch, agent-browser, /last30days, memory. |
unstuck |
The roadblock antidote. Classifies what kind of "no" you hit (assumption / framing / gatekeeper / tool / resource / physics), runs targeted lateral-thinking techniques from a 10-technique inventory, 10-angle minimum before evaluating. Agents run it on themselves before reporting any dead end. Upstream of decide. |
Knowledge & content consumption
| Skill | What |
|---|---|
second-brain |
Karpathy LLM Wiki workflow over any markdown vault. Capture / compile / query / lint / connect / search. Personal-scope. |
company-brain |
Team-scope sibling to second-brain. Structured raw dirs (people / companies / meetings / sops / decisions / customer-language / recurring-questions / sales-objections), multi-author attribution, sensitivity tagging, trust levels + a /cb review culling pass so unreviewed or deprecated info never poisons answers, optional auto-sync from Fathom / Gong / Granola / CRM. Backbone for a Company Brain Setup productized service. |
read-book |
PDFs, EPUBs, MOBI, markdown — chapter-by-chapter notes, quotes, summaries, or spaced-rep study mode. |
watch-video |
YouTube, Loom, Vimeo, Riverside, Zoom, MP4. Transcript / visual / multimodal (Gemini-native) modes. |
Output & creative
| Skill | What |
|---|---|
jab-hook |
Gary Vee's jab-jab-jab-right-hook rhythm applied to your portfolio rotation on X + LinkedIn via Typefully. |
slide-deck |
Branded React decks (Next.js). "Show, don't tell" narrative pitching, density modes, PPT conversion, Playwright export. |
Operations & utilities
| Skill | What |
|---|---|
pm |
Kanban (5-column) + Eisenhower across your portfolio. Tool-agnostic adapters (Notion, GitHub, Plane, Linear, Obsidian, manual). |
personal-cfo |
Personal financial scenarios — house purchase + rental forecasting, monthly cash flow, big-purchase decisions. Household scope. |
company-cfo |
Company / agency CFO workflow — monthly snapshots, weekly cash pulse, scenario projector. Transaction-sum EOM methodology, categorization discipline, forward forecasting. Pulls from bank + payment processor + payroll + expense-mgmt via toolify-wired integrations. Team scope. |
paste |
Clean terminal output for 9 destinations (Slack, Notion, Twitter, LinkedIn, email, GitHub, plain, HTML). Secret-detection first. |
social-fetch |
Pull any social post by URL across 10 platforms (X, LinkedIn, IG, TikTok, Bluesky, Reddit, Mastodon, Threads, HN). Strategy chain with free + paid fallbacks. |
Skills compose
Skills call each other by name. When a skill's job hits an adjacent job, it routes there rather than reimplementing. The most-referenced skills are the "central" ones — expect to touch these first as you adopt:
| Most referenced by siblings | Composes with... |
|---|---|
watch-video (54 ref |