原始内容
Lifeskills
A curated collection of non-coding skills for AI agents focused on business-critical communication, strategy, negotiation, and influence.
These skills follow a shared quality contract for decision-ready outputs and explicit handling of uncertainty.
Language of skill content: English.
Skills included
Negotiation and influence
negotiation-voss-tactical-empathy
Negotiation planning and execution with tactical empathy, strategy/script separation, BATNA/ZOPA framing, and conditional concessions.
persuasion-cialdini-influence-design
Ethical persuasion design using Cialdini principles with principle-to-evidence-to-claim traceability.
Structured communication
Executive Communication
pyramid-principle-structured-communication
Answer-first executive storytelling for board updates, recommendations, and decision memos.
Mindset & Personal Strategy
luffy-mindset
Applies an audacious, practical "Luffy Mindset" for bold execution plans when explicitly requested.
- Best for: Breaking hesitation, pursuing ambitious goals, and converting fear into action.
- Key Capabilities: Fearless reframing, 3-7 step action planning, risk countermoves, and 24-hour commitment starts.
Leadership Execution
high-agency
Applies George Mack's High Agency framework for founder and leadership execution under uncertainty.
- Best for: High-stakes decisions, execution bottlenecks, ambiguous constraints, and cross-functional deadlocks.
- Key Capabilities: Converting vague blockers into specific constraints, generating high-agency options, and driving 24-72h action plans.
Consulting frameworks
consulting-issue-tree-mece
MECE issue-tree decomposition with formal validation gates and prioritized analysis backlog mapping.
consulting-hypothesis-driven-80-20
Hypothesis-driven planning with falsifiable design, kill criteria, and 80/20 prioritization.
consulting-market-competition-analysis
Market sizing and competitive analysis with top-down/bottom-up triangulation and uncertainty-aware scenarios.
consulting-portfolio-growth-strategy
Portfolio allocation and growth sequencing using BCG, GE/McKinsey, and Ansoff logic.
Shared output contract
Most decision-oriented skills use the same section order:
- Context
- Decision or Recommendation
- Analysis
- Risks
- Next Actions
- Assumptions
Specialized execution skills such as high-agency and luffy-mindset use their canonical templates instead of the generic contract.
This improves consistency across skills and makes outputs easier to review in high-stakes workflows.
Quality system
The repository includes a reusable evaluation framework in quality/:
quality/rubric.md: common scoring rubric (1-5).quality/test-prompts.md: 4 test prompts per skill (36 total).quality/eval-log-template.md: logging template for manual evaluations.scripts/lint_skills.py: local lint gate for skill structure, catalog coverage, and prompt coverage.
Target acceptance thresholds:
- Per-skill average >= 4.2
- No criterion below 3.5
- Zero critical guardrail failures
Validation workflow
Run python scripts/lint_skills.py after any skill edit. Fix every reported issue before staging, committing, or pushing.
Installation
npx skills add https://github.com/santos-sanz/lifeskills
Once installed, these skills are automatically available to the agent. You can invoke them explicitly or rely on the agent's intent detection.
Examples:
- "Help me negotiate a vendor renewal for 2026 using tactical empathy."
- "Draft a persuasive email to the CFO using Cialdini's principles."
- "Create a MECE issue tree to analyze why user retention is dropping."
- "We are blocked on launch and everyone says it's impossible. Build a high-agency decision memo for the next 72 hours."
Repository structure
skills/
<skill-name>/
SKILL.md
references/
templates/
examples/
scripts/
lint_skills.py
quality/
rubric.md
test-prompts.md
eval-log-template.md
Design principles used in this version
This iteration integrated patterns commonly used in high-quality agent skills ecosystems:
- Prompt contracts for predictable outputs.
- Rubric-driven evaluation for quality control.
- Explicit uncertainty and assumption tagging.
- Ethical guardrails for persuasion and negotiation tasks.
- Local lint gating before publish.