Skills

The tools shape the work. These are the Claude Code skills I wrote, vendor from open source, and lean on every day.

Authored

Most of these form one system: work-brain holds my role, people, voice, and projects as plain files, and the rest read and write it — slack-er drafts in my voice, morning-brief reads my VIPs and project state, gardener keeps it current. storytelling and pm-peer are standalone — portable to any workflow.

work-brain

The context substrate my other skills read from — who I am, my people and VIPs, strategy, voice, projects. A grilling interview scaffolds it; the skills below plug in. This is the operating system; the rest are apps.

slack-er

Triages my Slack and drafts replies in my voice for messages that genuinely need one. Drafts only, never sends.

morning-brief

Fans out to parallel subagents that pull my calendar, Slack, tasks, and email, then composes a 5-minute brief: a ranked Top 3, today's schedule with prep, and everything that needs a decision.

capex

Generates a monthly CapEx report for an engineering team: pulls merged PRs from GitHub, classifies work into capitalizable features, weights by PR size, and proposes per-engineer percentages with action flags.

gardener

End-of-day sweep that tends the work brain: pulls the day's signal, classifies it into cited facts vs judgement, then appends or proposes updates. Never edits or deletes.

storytelling

Narrative-structure frameworks for persuasive business communication — roadmap reviews, exec readouts, business cases, product pitches, strategy memos, proposals, and presentations.

pm-peer

Full PM document lifecycle: research existing capabilities and customer evidence, brainstorm solutions, write PRDs with structured intake, and review them across structural, logical, strategic, and handoff-readiness lenses.

Open source I use

Vendored from mattpocock/skills and kept current.

grill-me

Relentless interview that stress-tests a plan before any code gets written.

grill-with-docs

Grilling that sharpens terminology and updates project docs as decisions land.

handoff

Compacts a working session into a handoff doc for the next agent to pick up.

tdd

Red-green-refactor loop for building features and fixing bugs test-first.

prototype

Throwaway prototypes to feel out a design or data model before committing.

to-prd

Turns working context into a structured PRD.

improve-codebase-architecture

Finds refactoring and consolidation opportunities to make a codebase more navigable.

Team & internal

Internal HubSpot tooling I use day-to-day — described generically, not published.

prd-builder

Drafts a PRD through section-by-section intake, treating “idk” / “TBD” as first-class open questions instead of forcing answers.

prd-reviewer

Reviews a draft PRD for structural, logical, and strategic rigor plus handoff-readiness, returning a scored punch list.

deslop

Detects and removes AI writing tropes from prose.