Tools for You and your Agents

Turning stuff that bugs me and ideas that excite me into tools anyone can use. Each one starts by figuring out your context before giving advice.

SKILLS.md

Tools for your Coding Agents

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Skill Distillery

I kept learning from talks and articles but losing the details. This turns source material into a skill you can talk to.

Synthesizes articles, talks, and frameworks bottom-up into interactive skills. Extracts principles, mental models, and decision trees instead of reformatting paragraphs. The meta-skill that builds other skills.

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Design Motion Principles

I wanted animation feedback from three designers I admire. So I built a skill that audits motion through each one's principles.

Audits UI animations through the lens of Emil Kowalski, Jakub Krehel, and Jhey Tompkins. Gives per-designer feedback with context-aware weighting based on what you're building.

Dive Club Article

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Responsive Craft

Ridd talked about how tough it is to design responsively in code without a canvas. This front-loads those decisions so you're deliberate, not reactive.

Three modes: transform existing sites, build responsive from scratch, or launch a live multi-breakpoint preview. Surfaces design forks where there's no single right answer and makes you choose before writing CSS.

SKL / 04

Soleio's Design Talent Playbook

Soleio's playbook on hiring designers is one of the best things I've read. Turned it into an advisor you can talk to.

Two modes: Hiring Mode for sourcing design talent, Designer Mode for positioning yourself to get hired. Built from Soleio's strategic framework on what separates great designers from good ones.

SKL / 05

Intent Engineering

Most products know what they do but not why someone should care. This drills to the emotional bedrock underneath every design decision.

Based on Ellis Hamburger's three-question framework: what should users accomplish, notice, and feel? Uses a Why Loop technique to drill past surface answers to the universal human need underneath. Two modes: start a new project or audit an existing one.

SKL / 07

Skill Picker

Once you have 100 skills installed, Claude's auto-pick gets noisy. This makes a deliberate, rigorous pick when it matters.

Shortlists candidate skills, deep-reads each one's SKILL.md, and returns a structured recommendation — rejected candidates with reasons, better matches with evidence, and a primary skill plus optional chain. Manual invocation for when the auto-selection isn't good enough.

Misc. Tools

Raycast extensions · CLIs · utilities

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Media Compressor

A Raycast extension for compressing images and videos on macOS. Keyboard-first, background-native, no GUI app to open.

Select files in Finder, hit Quick Compress, and they're done in the background with a native progress overlay. Or open the full form for codec, CRF, target size %, resolution, and audio options. Watch folders auto-compress new files via launchd in the background.

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