Free to start

Four starter skills. MIT-licensed. Yours to fork.

A skill is a small, self-contained capability you drop into your assistant — a SKILL.md plus the occasional script. These four are the free starter set: the quietly-useful building blocks that make a personal assistant feel like yours. Written to be adapted, not just copied — every placeholder is marked so you know exactly what to fill in.

The skills

agent-backup

Snapshot your agent's config — skills, persona, settings — to a private git remote on a schedule. Secrets stay out via an allowlist .gitignore, so you can rebuild a dead box in minutes.

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idea-inbox

Append a timestamped note to a backlog file and commit it, instantly. Capture-first and zero-friction, so you never lose a thought mid-flow.

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vault-query

Let your assistant search a local Markdown / Obsidian second brain through an MCP filesystem server. The freshness and search-scope gotchas are already solved for you.

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nightly-reflection

Read and summarize the self-review logs a nightly reflection cron writes, so your assistant can learn from its own patterns over time.

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~ install a skill
$ git clone https://github.com/quietdaemon/starter-skills
$ cp -r starter-skills/skills/vault-query ~/.claude/skills/
# then open SKILL.md and fill in the <PLACEHOLDER> markers for your box

When you outgrow the free skills, the Guide covers the full build →