DannyMac180/skills

Public AI agent skills by DannyMac180.

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• modsmith - ModSmith: ready-made Claude Mods (quiz after the turn, assumption ledger, next-steps supervisor, mode registry, effort modes, shared Kanban dashboard) plus the judgment Claude Code's built-in mod authoring leaves out: per-turn token and prompt-cache review, vetting someone else's mod before installing, and rules for mods that compose.
• codex-dynamic-workflows - Plan and run supervised AI-agent dynamic workflows with goal mode, subagents or simulated work packets, approval gates, integration, verification, and reusable workflow artifacts.
• codex-relay - Relay: open one new native Codex task from your current task with a compact handoff, end your turn, and receive a single completion or blocker message back. Honors your chosen model and effort, or your default.
• be-ambitious - Ask for a deeper version of a task, not a bigger one: what a top professional would add, the rawest source material, the specific methods and tools, and an external check that the result is right. Then it rewrites your prompt to ask for exactly that.
• explain-this - Explain any digital artifact (papers, articles, code) shaped by a persistent learner profile, with comprehension quizzes and spaced-repetition review. On first use it interviews you (~10 min) and creates ~/.explain-this/.

Claude Code plugin marketplace (ModSmith). Run /plugin marketplace add DannyMac180/skills, then /plugin install modsmith-all@modsmith for the skill plus all six ready-made mods, or /plugin install modsmith@modsmith for the skill alone and /plugin install quiz-after@modsmith (or any other ModSmith mod) one by one.

Any agent. If your AI agent supports skills, you can point it at the GitHub URL for a skill and ask it to install that skill:

Install the AI agent skill at https://github.com/DannyMac180/skills/tree/main/codex-dynamic-workflows

You can also clone this repo and copy a skill folder into your agent's skills directory. Adjust the destination path for your agent; this example uses Codex's user-scope skills folder (~/.agents/skills):

git clone https://github.com/DannyMac180/skills.git
cd skills
mkdir -p "$HOME/.agents/skills"
cp -R codex-dynamic-workflows "$HOME/.agents/skills/"

Then start a new agent session and invoke it with:

Use $codex-dynamic-workflows to plan and run a supervised multi-agent workflow for this task: ...

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