Agent skills

For planning before you build, these pair well with Matt Pocock's skills: planning skills for grilling an idea, writing a spec and splitting the work into tickets.

• academic-pdf-to-mkd

  Converts academic PDFs, including scans, into Markdown with figures, tables and page images as separate files.

  Use it when you want a paper or book chapter in a form an agent can read and quote accurately.

  Source on GitHub

• agent-roles

  Orchestrator playbook for Claude Code: which model plans, builds, fixes, reviews and tests, with dated seat choices, cost evidence and paste-in briefs.

  Use it when you run Claude Code as the planner and hand building, fixing, review and testing to other models.

  Source on GitHub

• agents-md-streamline

  Writes and tightens AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md files so they tell an agent what to do, not the project's history.

  Use it when your instruction files have grown long and the agent follows them less well.

  Source on GitHub

• ai-model-benchmarks

  Builds offline comparison charts and tables of AI models from Artificial Analysis, Arena and OpenRouter data.

  Use it when you need a current chart of model quality, price or usage for a talk or report.

  Needs an account Source on GitHub

• ai-working-style-builder

  Helps you describe how you work so AI tools fit your communication, attention and record-keeping habits.

  Use it when you are starting to work with an agent and want it to fit how you think and write.

  Source on GitHub Interactive guide

• anonymise

  Finds and redacts personal information in text on your own machine with an open-weight model, with no cloud service.

  Use it when you need to remove names and contact details from transcripts or survey responses before sharing them.

  Runs on your Mac Source on GitHub

• app-design-elements

  The shared elements every desktop app carries: commands, keyboard, menus, Settings and agent access.

  Use it when you want an agent to build a desktop app whose commands, shortcuts, menus and Settings window work the same way as in your other apps.

  Source (own repository)

• archive-scout

  Searches, quotes and counts words in your own writing and reading highlights with the local scout tool, and writes cited reports with a JSON evidence file.

  Use it when you want to find and quote what you have written or highlighted, or count how your use of a word changed over time.

  Source on GitHub

• cesky-narodni-korpus-skill

  Queries the Czech National Corpus (KonText) for concordances, frequencies and collocations from inside an agent.

  Use it when you study Czech and want corpus evidence without leaving the agent.

  Needs an account Source (own repository)

• claim-fact-checker

  Checks every factual claim in a report against its sources, one isolated checker per claim, and writes findings and a fix plan.

  Use it when you have a report, review or news item and want each claim checked before it goes out.

  Source on GitHub

• codex-images-workflow

  Treats generated images as reproducible files: a written brief first, the image beside it, both versioned.

  Use it when you generate posters, mockups or diagrams and need to regenerate or revise them later.

  Source on GitHub

• cognitive-walkthrough

  Runs a cognitive walkthrough on a mockup, screenshot or live page to check how easily a new user can learn it, and writes a learnability report.

  Use it when you have a design or a prototype and want to know where a first-time user would get stuck.

  Source on GitHub

• coordination-hub

  Sets up a hub repo where every agent session starts, holding a registry of your projects, a backlog, handoff notes and a lessons log, with a routine check for uncommitted or unpushed work.

  Use it when you work on many projects with agents and cannot keep track of where each one lives or what state you left it in.

  Source on GitHub

• corpus-tools-skill

  Sets up a local corpus-linguistics toolchain on a Mac (NLTK, spaCy, Stanza, Corpus Workbench, OPUS) with a parallel-concordance tool. Draft.

  Use it when you want to run corpus linguistics on your own machine.

  Runs on your Mac Source (own repository)

• design-first-dev

  Takes an app or feature from user journeys and drawn designs to a locked mockup before any code is written.

  Use it when you are about to build an app or a feature and want the design settled before any code is written.

  Source on GitHub

• dev-traffic-control

  Lets agents file test requests and reviews in Dev Traffic Control, a desktop review app, and collect the answers.

  Use it when you review agent work in Dev Traffic Control and want agents to file requests and read your answers.

  Needs one of Dominik's apps Source on GitHub

• doc-editorial-skill

  Audits, reviews and fact-checks markdown documentation, proposing each change and asking before editing.

  Use it when you have a draft or documentation set and want structured editing help.

  Source on GitHub

• expository-writing

  Keeps an agent's prose literal and specific: every sentence says something checkable.

  Use it when you want an agent's reports, documentation or web copy to be plain and specific.

  Source on GitHub

• global-agent-instructions

  Keeps one global instruction file and installs it into Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and pi.

  Use it when you use more than one agent and want the same instructions in each.

  Source on GitHub

• goalify

  Turns a project or product interview into durable goal prompts for OpenAI Codex.

  Use it when you want to hand Codex a long-running goal that is written down clearly.

  Source (own repository)

• image-to-design

  Takes a design from a written brief through generated mockups to HTML/CSS, keeping every prompt, image and revision on disk.

  Use it when you are exploring a user interface visually and want each version kept and comparable.

  Source on GitHub

• judgement-vs-code

  Helps an agent decide when a task needs reading and judgement rather than string matching.

  Use it when your agent is about to write code that processes language or document content.

  Source on GitHub

• learn-from-dominiks-setup

  Looks at your own agent setup, compares it with Dominik's practices and points you to the few skills worth trying; you start by pasting one line into your agent, with nothing to install first.

  Use it when you want to know which of Dominik's skills are worth trying and would rather your agent looked at your setup than read a long list.

  Source on GitHub

• metaphor

  Helps an agent use and examine metaphors without over-extending them.

  Use it when you are explaining something with a metaphor, or using one to frame a design.

  Source on GitHub

• paper-reviewer-skill

  Imports a paper from Zotero, extracts its text, figures and tables, and writes structured reviews.

  Use it when you want a structured review of a paper that is in your Zotero library.

  Source on GitHub

• project-changelog

  Keeps a structured changelog folder in a repository alongside its git history.

  Use it when you want a project's history, decisions and backlog recorded in the repository itself.

  Source on GitHub

• readability-skill

  Helps write more readable text and design more readable slides.

  Use it when you want text or slides that are easier to read, including for dyslexic readers.

  Source (own repository)

• research-translation

  Runs auditable translation and back-translation of participant-facing research documents such as consent forms.

  Use it when you need a consent form or questionnaire translated with a record of each check.

  Source on GitHub

• single-html-document

  Builds self-contained single-file HTML documents (reports, explainers, slide decks, feedback forms) that work offline.

  Use it when you want one HTML file you can email, open from disk or put on a web server.

  Source on GitHub

• sketchengine-skill

  Connects an agent to Sketch Engine to run word sketches, word lists and keyword analyses on its corpora.

  Use it when you have a Sketch Engine subscription and want an agent to run queries.

  Needs an account Source (own repository)

• skill-explorer

  Turns a SKILL.md file into an interactive web page showing its structure, code and connections.

  Use it when you want to understand a skill someone else wrote, or explain one to a class.

  Source (own repository)

• speech-to-text-skill

  Transcribes audio locally on Apple Silicon (Qwen3-ASR, Parakeet, Whisper) into time-coded transcripts, with optional speaker labels.

  Use it when you have a recording of a lecture, interview or meeting that needs a transcript.

  Runs on your Mac Source (own repository)

• talkweaver

  Lets agents write and revise presentation content for the TalkWeaver app, including converting PowerPoint files and processing recordings.

  Use it when you build talks in TalkWeaver and want help with outlines, handouts or recordings.

  Needs one of Dominik's apps Source on GitHub

• text-as-graph

  Treats documents and courses as connected parts so they can be reused and recombined without copies drifting.

  Use it when you are designing how documents, courses or slides are structured and reused.

  Source on GitHub

• text-to-image-skill

  Generates and edits images locally on Apple Silicon with open models such as FLUX.2 Klein and Qwen-Image.

  Use it when you want illustrations for slides or documents without sending prompts to a service.

  Runs on your Mac Source (own repository)

• text-to-speech-skill

  Generates speech locally on Apple Silicon with several open voice models, including voice cloning and Czech.

  Use it when you want narration or an audio version of a text.

  Runs on your Mac Source (own repository)

• ux-journeys

  Pins down who the user is, what they are trying to do and what they see at each step, before visual design starts.

  Use it when you are starting design work and need to agree who the user is and what they do at each step.

  Source on GitHub

• video-analysis

  Describes, summarises or answers questions about a video on your own machine with a local model.

  Use it when you have a screen recording or video and want a description or timestamped scene list without uploading it.

  Runs on your Mac Source on GitHub

• writeflex

  Lets agents read, organise and prepare Markdown content for the WriteFlex app.

  Use it when you keep your writing in WriteFlex and want an agent to help with collections and documents.

  Needs one of Dominik's apps Source on GitHub

• writing-modes

  Makes an agent decide who a text is for and in whose name it speaks before it writes, and load only that register's rules.

  Use it when you want an agent to settle who a text is for before it writes, so that chat replies, instruction files and anything sent in your name each get the right treatment.

  Source on GitHub

• zotero-wrangler

  Manages Zotero imports, linked notes, evidence-backed tags and scoped native full-text discovery.

  Use it when you want an agent to import references, fetch PDFs or tidy collections in Zotero.

  Source on GitHub