toolshed
Skills overview
The Claude Code skills built for the garden and what each one does.
Skills are saved Claude Code prompts that encode multi-step workflows. They are invoked with /skill-name in a session. The garden has two kinds: skills built here for the garden, and general-purpose skills from Anthropic.
Garden skills
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
/new-post | Drafts a new article, jotting, field note, seed, or Toolshed post. Opens Typora for content posts; Toolshed posts are drafted inline for review. Runs auto-enrichment and gets sign-off before writing. |
/new-book | Adds a book to the library. Fetches metadata from Open Library automatically. |
/new-project | Creates a project hub: a field note marked hub: true that appears on the Projects page. |
/new-project-file | Adds a post that belongs to a project hub via the develops: frontmatter field. |
/complete-project | Closes out a project and generates a completion report. |
/auto-tag | Runs the three-pass TAO analysis on a post and enriches it with tags, triples, themes, wiki-links, and Wikipedia links. See The publishing routine for how TAO works. |
/publish | Full publishing routine: validate frontmatter, generate OG images, rebuild the explore map, commit, push, and share to LinkedIn if applicable. |
/share-linkedin | Generates and shares a LinkedIn post from a published article or jotting. |
/morning | Session-start ritual: runs /backlog for the briefing, then /check-inbox for the inbox pipeline. Hands back the dashboard URL and today’s suggested focus. |
/backlog | Opens a backlog grooming session: scans for stale items, flags blockers, checks the tablet inbox for unprocessed notes, and suggests session focus. Runs /telegram-sync automatically at the start. |
/handover | Writes a session close and a brief for the next session. |
/check-inbox | Runs /telegram-sync and enriches any drafts left with triples: [], then opens the local admin dashboard at localhost:8900 for review. The GitHub workflow only syncs; this skill closes the enrichment loop. |
/telegram-sync | Triggers the GitHub Actions sync workflow, pulls new captures (text notes, weblinks, PDFs) from Telegram, runs /summarize-pdf on new PDFs, and runs /ingest-source on each new draft weblink to enrich it before review. |
/summarize-pdf | Extracts key concepts and principles from a PDF verbatim, appends a structured summary to the matching library entry, then runs /auto-tag. |
/update-release-notes | Appends a summary of recent changes to the release notes. |
Anthropic skills
General-purpose skills not specific to the garden, available in any Claude Code session:
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
/pdf | Read, extract, combine, split, or create PDF files. |
/docx | Create or edit Word documents. |
/pptx | Create or edit PowerPoint presentations. |
/xlsx | Read or edit spreadsheet files. |
/skill-creator | Create new skills, modify existing ones, or run evals to test them. |