ngmeyer skills
Ten thinking skills: write-well, six-pager, council-review, and more
About
A personal pack of ten small, composable skills for deciding, writing, remembering, and improving — explicitly not code-focused. The writing standouts are write-well, which drafts or edits prose with a real voice from a craft canon (Strunk, Zinsser, Orwell, Ogilvy) and holds its own em-dash budget, and six-pager, which forces Amazon-style narrative decision memos with a required premortem. Also included: council-review (five-advisor debate), session-close (reconcile sessions into project memory), and claude-md (audit CLAUDE.md drift). Install with npx skills@latest add ngmeyer/skills. Thin-vetting caveat: 4 stars and 29 commits as of this writing — the content is substantive and MIT-licensed, but it has almost no community track record, so treat it as an individual's well-built toolkit rather than a vetted standard.
What it can do
- write-well: voice-driven prose drafting and editing
- six-pager: narrative decision memos with premortem
- council-review: five-advisor decision debate
- session-close and session-recover for project memory
- claude-md: audit and improve agent instruction files
- MIT licensed, single self-contained directories
Setup
Run npx skills@latest add ngmeyer/skills, pick your agents and skills in the installer, then invoke directly (e.g. /write-well, /six-pager).
Prerequisites
Node.js for the Skills CLI.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Live GitHub page read this session: 4 stars, MIT license, 29 commits; install command copied verbatim from README.; write-well, six-pager, council-review, session-close verified in README table; content is substantive (craft canon, premortem requirements).; Thin vetting: 4 stars since May 2026 — metrics tier with explicit track-record caveat..
★ 4 GitHub stars
Sources
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