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business-brainstorm
When you want to pressure-test a potential new business, product, or side project against the serial-founder filter. Not \"marketing ideas for a product\" (that's marketing-skills:marketing-ideas) — this is \"should this business exist + can you win it.\" Runs the idea through a structured framework (problem, audience, wedge, monetization, moat, portfolio fit, distribution, energy fit, opportunity cost), checks domain availability via /domain, optionally triggers /deep-research for market validation, and outputs a viability brief: build / sleep on it / pass. Archives every idea to ~/.config/makerskills/business-brainstorm/archive/ so past work is searchable. Triggers on \"/business-brainstorm,\" \"/brainstorm,\" \"new business idea,\" \"should I build X,\" \"pressure test this idea,\" \"validate this idea,\" \"is X a good business,\" \"what about a [type] for [audience].\
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1. Native installer
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Do not guess an installer command or replace an existing version without reviewing the diff.
2. Complete package recommended
Download the ZIP when available. It includes SKILL.md plus the references, security notes and version metadata.
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// README
makerskills
AI agent skills for the personal operator's craft. Decisions, research, second-brain workflows, content rotation, scenario modeling, CFO cadence, domain hunts, and the meta-skills to author more.
Built for founders and indie operators. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other Agent Skills hosts.
Site: maker-skills.com
Install
# In Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add coreyhaines31/makerskills
/plugin install makerskills@makerskills
Or symlink for local dev:
git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills ~/code/makerskills
ln -s ~/code/makerskills ~/.claude/plugins/makerskills
See INSTALL.md for env vars, personal-config setup, and runtime dependencies.
Getting started — 5-minute path
New to the plugin? Do these in order. Everything else can wait until you need it.
1. Install the plugin (above), then set the base env var in ~/.zshenv:
export MAKERSKILLS_CONFIG="$HOME/.config/makerskills"
Reload your shell.
2. Run your first skill — start with decide. No config required:
/decide
It'll ask what decision you're facing, pick the right questions from the 37signals framework, and archive the result with a revisit date. That's the first-touch experience: any skill in this plugin. Structured input → structured output → written to disk.
3. Read one SKILL.md to see the pattern:
open ~/code/makerskills/skills/decide/SKILL.md
Each skill is a workflow doc — you can invoke via /decide OR read the SKILL.md and run the steps by hand. The plugin is documentation-first; the automation is a side effect.
4. Try one more skill that involves personal config, so you understand the pattern:
/paste twitter
It'll read your clipboard, strip formatting, warn if over 280 chars, and copy back the cleaned output. First invocation may prompt you to install pbcopy-adjacent deps if missing. No config file needed — this is a pure utility.
5. Now branch out. Skim The 21 skills below and pick one that maps to a workflow you're already doing manually. That's the highest-leverage adoption path.
Which skill do I invoke when?
Routing table for common operator jobs. Match your intent → skill.
| I want to... | Skill |
|---|---|
| Think through a decision with a real fork | decide |
| Break through a wall ("this seems impossible") | unstuck |
| Get a board of famous founders to weigh in | maker-council |
| Pressure-test a new business or product idea | business-brainstorm |
| Research a topic with citations | deep-research |
Find an available .com for a new project | domain |
| Capture / query / lint my personal knowledge base | second-brain |
| Same but for a team-shared knowledge base | company-brain |
| Extract notes / highlights / summaries from a book | read-book |
| Extract a transcript or key moments from a video | watch-video |
| Turn a call transcript or client message into issues + reply | ingest |
| Fetch any social post by URL as structured data | social-fetch |
| Plan / draft social content rotation across a portfolio | jab-hook |
| Draft, update, convert, or export a slide deck | slide-deck |
| Clean terminal output for Slack / LinkedIn / X / Notion etc. | paste |
| Manage projects across businesses (kanban) | pm |
| Model personal financial scenarios (house, cash flow, etc.) | personal-cfo |
| Run monthly / weekly CFO for a company or agency | company-cfo |
| Create, adapt, or update a skill | skillify |
| Wire up an integration / API / MCP into a project | toolify |
| Set up an agent loop or scheduled task | loopify |
Not sure between two? The skill's SKILL.md description always includes trigger phrases and disambiguation from adjacent skills.
The 21 skills
Meta — extend Claude Code (the -ify trifecta)
| Skill | What |
|---|---|
skillify | Create, adapt, or update a skill in any sibling repo. Three modes: CREATE (from-chat / from-video / from-dump / from-scratch), ADAPT (port external skill with license check + attribution), UPDATE (improve existing skills with cross-skill propagation + semver discipline). |
toolify | Wire up an integration, API, MCP server, or third-party service into a Next.js or Rails project. Interactive wizard for auth, env vars, client wrapper, webhook handling, and smoke-test. |
loopify | Set up an agent loop, cron-scheduled task, or recurring workflow. Judgment layer on top of ScheduleWakeup / CronCreate / /loop — picks pattern (dynamic / cron / one-shot), tunes delay for cache windows, enforces idempotency + bail-out conditions. |
Decision & strategy
| Skill | What |
|---|---|
decide | 37signals decision framework (38 questions + house additions like Q39 opportunity cost, triaged to 6–8 per decision). Archives with revisit dates. |
business-brainstorm | Pressure-test a new business or product on 9 dimensions. Composes with deep-research + domain. |
domain | 11-step .com domain hunt on Laura Roeder's "availability-first, never fall in love with a name" methodology. Multi-tool ensemble: Vercel CLI + whois (per-TLD) + Domainr API + Namecheap API + rdap.org (modern TLDs) + agent-browser for USPTO trademark screening + aftermarket click-throughs (HugeDomains / Afternic / Sedo / Dan). Handles bare-word + prefix/suffix brainstorming, budget filtering, negotiation guidance, and social handle checks. |
deep-research | Multi-source research with citations + archive. WebSearch, WebFetch, agent-browser, /last30days, memory. |
unstuck | The roadblock antidote. Classifies what kind of "no" you hit (assumption / framing / gatekeeper / tool / resource / physics), runs targeted lateral-thinking techniques from a 10-technique inventory, 10-angle minimum before evaluating. Agents run it on themselves before reporting any dead end. Upstream of decide. |
maker-council | Simulated personal board of advisors — Fried, Musk, Bezos, Jensen, Iger, Graham, Naval, Blakely. Seats 3–5 by question type with a designated dissenter, grounds takes in documented frameworks (optional live-research pass), maps the disagreements, synthesizes a call. Custom members via config dir. |
Knowledge & content consumption
| Skill | What |
|---|---|
second-brain | Karpathy LLM Wiki workflow over any markdown vault. Capture / compile / query / lint / connect / search. Personal-scope. |
[company-brain](./skills/company-brain |
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