This skill helps prompt engineers and AI builders move beyond general polishing to achieve professional-grade depth. Instead of expanding the scope of a request, it analyzes what a top practitioner in a specific field would prioritize and incorporates those raw sources and methods into the prompt.
It is designed for users who need to raise the bar on a task by defining the specific tools and validation criteria that an expert would use to ensure a result is correct.
Follow the documented setup, then try a first task.
Installs: ModSmith skill plus all six ready-made mods: quiz-after, next-steps-supervisor, assumption-ledger, mode-registry, effort-modes, and artifact-dashboard. · Claude Code
Enter this command in a Claude Code session to add the marketplace.
/plugin marketplace add DannyMac180/skills
Enter this command in the Claude Code session to install the complete bundle. The quiz and supervisor mods each use a cached side check after turns that changed something.
/plugin install modsmith-all@modsmith
Start a new Claude Code session so the mods load.
Installs: ModSmith skill alone. · Claude Code
Enter this command in a Claude Code session to add the marketplace.
/plugin marketplace add DannyMac180/skills
Enter this command in the Claude Code session to install only the skill.
/plugin install modsmith@modsmith
Installs: codex-dynamic-workflows skill.
Send this installation request in your agent session.
Install the AI agent skill at https://github.com/DannyMac180/skills/tree/main/codex-dynamic-workflows
Start a new agent session before invoking the skill.
Installs: codex-dynamic-workflows skill in the user-scope ~/.agents/skills directory. · Codex
Run from: Begin in a directory where the repository can be cloned; the commands then enter skills.
Run this complete command block in a terminal to clone the repository and copy the selected skill into Codex's documented user-scope skills folder.
git clone https://github.com/DannyMac180/skills.git cd skills mkdir -p "$HOME/.agents/skills" cp -R codex-dynamic-workflows "$HOME/.agents/skills/"
Start a new agent session before invoking the skill.
Installs: be-ambitious skill.
Send this installation request in your agent session.
Install the AI agent skill at https://github.com/DannyMac180/skills/tree/main/be-ambitious
Installs: explain-this skill; learner state is stored separately in ~/.explain-this/.
Copy the repository's explain-this/ folder into your agent's skills directory.
On first use, complete the approximately ten-minute learner interview. The skill creates ~/.explain-this/ for your profile and review cards.
Installs: codex-relay skill in the Codex skills directory. · Codex
Platform: Currently Codex desktop.
Run from: A directory where the repository can be cloned into skills; run the complete block from that directory.
Run this complete command block in a terminal. It installs into CODEX_HOME/skills when CODEX_HOME is set, otherwise into ~/.codex/skills.
Claude
Codex
Grokgit clone https://github.com/DannyMac180/skills.git
mkdir -p "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/skills"
cp -R skills/codex-relay "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/skills/"Start a new session afterwards.
Uses be-ambitious
Use be-ambitious to deepen this task without expanding its scope: <your task or prompt>. Identify the expert moves, primary sources, specific methods, and external checks, then rewrite the prompt and stop for my review.
Uses explain-this
Use explain-this to give me a five-minute orientation to this article: <article link or file>. If I do not yet have a learner profile, start with the interview. Shape the explanation to my profile and finish with comprehension questions.
Uses modsmith
Use modsmith to vet this Claude Code mod before I install it: <mod path or repository>. Review its token cost per turn and prompt-cache behavior, and give me a concise assessment. Do not install it.