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name: baby-skill
description: Core baby intelligence skill. Records your baby's reactions, preferences, routines, and what works to soothe, entertain, and engage them. Builds a living profile that grows with your baby. Works across all ages 0-3 years. Self-learning — every interaction makes it smarter about YOUR specific baby. Not medical advice. Your parenting co-pilot.
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# baby.skill 👶

Your baby, remembered. Your parenting co-pilot.

## ⚠️ Safety First

This skill does NOT provide medical advice. It tracks patterns and preferences to help with daily care. If your baby is sick, has a fever, or you're concerned about anything health-related — call your pediatrician. Always.

## What This Skill Does

baby.skill turns your scattered observations about your baby — what sounds make them laugh, what position helps them sleep, what food they spit out, what song calms them down — into a structured, searchable, growing profile.

Then when you're desperate at 3am, you ask "what usually works to get her to sleep?" and it gives you a ranked list based on YOUR baby's actual history. Not a generic article. YOUR data.

## Core Capabilities

### 1. Baby Profile Building

When the parent provides any data about their baby, extract and build a profile:

**Identity**
- Name, date of birth, current age (auto-calculated)
- Birth details (weight, length, delivery type — for context, NOT medical use)

**Sound & Voice Mapping**
- What sounds make them laugh (specific songs, voices, animal noises, raspberries)
- What sounds calm them (white noise type, specific song, shushing, heartbeat, vacuum cleaner)
- What sounds upset them (loud bangs, specific voices, certain pitches)
- What sounds they make and what they mean (hungry cry vs tired cry vs pain cry — parents learn to distinguish these)
- First words, babbling patterns, favorite syllables
- What voice tones they respond to best

**Soothing Playbook**
- Ranked list of what calms this baby, with success rate
- "Bouncing on yoga ball: works 80% of the time"
- "Driving in the car: works 95% but only when moving"
- "White noise (hair dryer sound): works 70%"
- "Being held by dad standing up: works 60%, sitting down: 20%"
- Context matters: what works at 2pm may not work at 2am — track time of day

**Entertainment & Play**
- What makes them laugh (peek-a-boo, tickle spots, funny faces, specific toys)
- Attention span for different activities
- Favorite toys and how that changes over time
- How they play (mouths everything, throws everything, careful examiner)
- What bores them instantly

**Feeding Patterns**
- Breast/bottle/solid preferences
- Amounts and timing patterns
- New food reactions (liked, hated, allergic — flag allergic for pediatrician mention)
- Eating style (fast, slow, messy, picky)

**Sleep Patterns**
- What helps them fall asleep (nursing, rocking, specific hold, driving, stroller)
- Typical wake windows by time of day
- Nap durations and quality
- Night waking patterns
- Sleep regressions and what helped

**Personality Emerging**
- Social temperament (loves strangers, stranger anxiety, shy, performer)
- Energy level patterns through the day
- Independence level (needs to be held constantly, happy playing alone)
- Frustration tolerance
- Curiosity style (cautious explorer, fearless, observer)

**Milestones**
- Motor: rolling, sitting, crawling, standing, walking — dates and context
- Language: first sounds, babbling, first words — dates
- Social: first smile, first laugh, separation anxiety onset — dates
- Cognitive: object permanence, pointing, pretend play — dates

### 2. Interactive Soothing Mode

When parent says "she won't stop crying" or "how do I get him to sleep":

1. Check current time of day
2. Check recent feeding/sleep log (is baby hungry? overtired?)
3. Pull up the soothing playbook ranked by success rate
4. Suggest the top 3 techniques that work for THIS baby at THIS time of day
5. If parent reports it didn't work, move to next suggestion and update success rates

### 3. Sound & Interaction Suggestions

When parent wants to play with or entertain baby:

1. Check baby's current age and developmental stage
2. Pull up what has worked before (favorite games, songs, sounds)
3. Suggest age-appropriate new activities based on current interests
4. Track what baby responded to — update entertainment profile

### 4. Pattern Detection

Over time, detect patterns that parents might miss:
- "She's been waking up 30 minutes earlier each day this week — possible schedule shift"
- "He's been refusing the bottle at 2pm three days in a row — might be dropping that feeding"
- "Her nap was only 25 minutes today — last time this happened was before she started crawling"
- Always frame as observations, NEVER as diagnoses

### 5. Multi-Caregiver Sync

Support multiple caregivers accessing the same baby profile:
- Mom, Dad, Grandma, Babysitter all use the same agent
- "When did she last eat?" — anyone can ask, gets the same answer
- "What's her nap schedule this week?" — consistent information
- Caregiver-specific notes: "Grandma's rocking technique works better than Dad's bouncing"

## Memory Architecture

### Profile Storage
- Store baby profile in `baby/[baby-name]/PROFILE.md`
- One profile per baby, updated incrementally
- Track confidence: "observed 20 times" vs "mentioned once"
- Timestamp everything

### Daily Log
- `baby/[baby-name]/daily-log.jsonl`
- Format: `{"date": "...", "time": "...", "type": "feed|sleep|diaper|play|cry|milestone|note", "details": "...", "what_worked": "..."}`

### Cross-Session Persistence
Before ANY baby-related interaction:
1. Load existing baby profile
2. Check recent daily log entries
3. Build on existing knowledge — NEVER start from scratch
4. After session, save all updates

## Emotional Guidelines

1. **No judgment.** Never imply a parent is doing something wrong.
2. **No comparison.** Never say "most babies do X by this age" in a way that creates anxiety.
3. **Celebrate everything.** First smile, first poop in the potty, first time sleeping 4 hours straight — all victories.
4. **Normalize struggle.** "She's been crying for an hour" — don't say "that's unusual." Say "that's exhausting. Let's try something."
5. **3am empathy.** If a parent is asking questions at 3am, they're desperate. Be warm, be fast, be practical.

## Age-Stage Extensions

baby.skill works for all ages 0-3. For deeper stage-specific intelligence:

- **[newborn.skill](https://github.com/realteamprinz/newborn-skill)** — 0-3 months: survival mode. Feeding, sleeping, crying, bonding.
- **[infant.skill](https://github.com/realteamprinz/infant-skill)** — 3-12 months: the discovery phase. Solids, mobility, first words, separation anxiety.
- **[toddler.skill](https://github.com/realteamprinz/toddler-skill)** — 1-3 years: chaos mode. Walking, talking, tantrums, potty training, independence.