The AI skills I actually use — what each one does, and how to add them in two minutes

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I don't do my own AI. I use AI, set up and maintained for me by my AI Geek, Nick.

Here's what changed for me this year: I stopped writing prompts and started writing job descriptions.

The problem was never that my assistant was dumb. It was that every time I asked for something, it improvised a slightly different version of the answer. So I was re-teaching it my standards, forever.

Now the standard lives in a file. Written once, plain English. My assistant loads the right one when it recognizes the situation. These are called skills, and Nick made his library public.

Here's what's actually in it.

Works anywhere, no setup:

• deep-dive — "go figure this out" returns a recommendation and what would reverse it, instead of a reading list
• keep-going — it finishes the work instead of stopping to ask which option you want
• mob-check — what real people are saying right now on Reddit, X, and YouTube, not the SEO version
• multi-review — runs a draft, plan, or decision past several critical angles before you send it
• trust-framework — rules for when it acts on its own versus asks you first, and how it earns more rope
• skill-librarian — audits your skill library: duplicates, dead weight, why one didn't fire

Needs a login or tool you probably already have:

• google-docs / google-sheets / google-slides — build real docs, spreadsheets, and decks from messy input
• grok-search — live web and X search
• vapi-calls — it actually places a phone call: a booking, a confirmation, a reminder
• imessage-bluebubbles — read and send iMessage from your assistant (Mac)
• diagram-rendering — turn a description into a real diagram image
• address-pr-comments — for the technical folks: triages code review feedback and fixes what's valid

Running H‍ermes rather than Claude, you also get: recall (pick up where you left off), memory-cleanup (trim a bloated memory file without losing facts), moa-solve (throw a hard problem at several AI models and pull out the best answer), project-steward (run a portfolio of projects like a chief of staff), robustify-doctor, email-steward, report, mini-app, pr-review-sweep.

How to get them

👉 https://technick.ai/ai-skills

Paste what's on that page into Claude or H‍ermes. It asks what you want to be better at, shows you the few that fit, and waits for your yes before it saves anything. Two minutes. It won't touch what you already have.

Not on either? Steal this one right now, above any research question:

Before you answer: give me your recommendation in one sentence, then the two things that would reverse it, then the single question only I can answer. No summary, no frameworks, no options list. If you don't have enough to decide, say what's missing.

That's a skill. The list above is a few dozen more.

Reply with the recurring task you're tired of re-explaining to your AI. If three of us name the same one, I'll have it written up as a skill and post it back here.

Live walkthrough September 2. 💥