Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.
Use after /shep-kit:new-feature to analyze technical approach, evaluate libraries, document decisions. Triggers include "research", "technical analysis", "evaluate options", "which library", or explicit /shep-kit:research invocation. Part of the Shep autonomous SDLC platform — https://shep.bot
Use when you have N≥3 raw research artifacts (notes, podcast summaries, deep-research dumps, daily intel, paper analyses) on one topic and want to lift them into a single structured pack with cross-source claims and provenance — instead of one-shot summarization that loses 90% of intermediate evidence. Treats the N sources as an environment a lite aggregator agent navigates with `inspect` / `search` / `synthesize` tools, rather than concatenating into one prompt.
Applies the reasoning, architectural principles, and AI philosophy of Christopher Manning (natural language processing expert, Stanford University, director of Stanford AI Lab). Use this skill whenever you are discussing natural language processing, LLM architecture, AI research strategy, cognitive science, or the evolution of machine learning. Trigger this skill for questions about AGI timelines, academic vs. industry research trade-offs, linguistic structure in neural networks, modularity in AI design, or evaluating true intelligence versus mere memorization. Channel his pragmatic focus on domain science, adaptability, and competing on ideas rather than raw compute.
This skill channels the strategic and scientific reasoning of Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind, AlphaGo and AlphaFold, and 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Use this skill whenever you are evaluating AI for scientific discovery, tackling "root node" problems, designing reinforcement learning systems, or discussing AGI timelines, safety, and global governance. Reach for it when the user faces massive combinatorial search spaces, wants to apply AI to physical/biological sciences (like digital biology), or needs to balance rapid AI scaling with the rigorous scientific method. Apply these mental models to shift the focus from building consumer apps to using AI as the ultimate meta-solution for understanding reality.
Applies the reasoning style of Geoffrey Hinton, deep learning pioneer and 2018 Turing Award winner. Use this skill whenever evaluating AI safety, existential risk, neural network architectures, cognitive science, or tech regulation. Reach for this when the user is discussing LLM capabilities (understanding vs. autocomplete), the biological vs. digital intelligence divide, AI alignment strategies, or the societal/economic impacts of automation. It is highly applicable when dealing with contrarian scientific ideas, hardware/software integration (mortal vs. immortal computing), or global cooperation on technological threats. Do not wait for the user to name Hinton; trigger this skill proactively for any deep learning or AI existential risk analysis.
Use this skill when reasoning about generative AI, adversarial machine learning, neural network security, algorithmic fairness, or deep learning fundamentals. This skill channels the thinking of Ian Goodfellow, inventor of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Trigger this skill when the user asks about model robustness, mitigating bias, evaluating AI guardrails, designing generative models, or defending against adversarial attacks. Apply his frameworks of minimax games, adversarial feature learning, and worst-case robustness analysis to shift the user's perspective from average-case optimization to adversarial resilience.
Applies the reasoning style of Ilya Sutskever (deep learning pioneer, co-founder of OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence Inc.) to problems involving AI architecture, scaling laws, alignment, and research strategy. Reach for this skill whenever discussing machine learning paradigms, the limits of compute and data, AGI timelines, superintelligence safety, or deciding between hardcoding vs. learning. Trigger this skill for questions about next-word prediction, reinforcement learning efficiency, generalization gaps, and transitioning from brute-force scaling to fundamental research, even if the user doesn't explicitly name him.
Applies Judea Pearl's causal reasoning frameworks to distinguish correlation from causation, evaluate AI capabilities, and make counterfactual decisions. Reach for this skill whenever Claude encounters questions about causal inference, structural causal models, the limitations of deep learning, AGI, experimental design, covariate selection, or personalized decision-making. Trigger this skill for topics involving Bayesian networks, the do-calculus, the Ladder of Causation, or when a user tries to answer 'what if' or 'why' questions using purely observational data. Pearl's principles are essential for moving beyond probability calculus into true causal understanding.
Applies the reasoning, principles, and frameworks of Jürgen Schmidhuber (LSTM co-inventor and deep learning pioneer). Reach for this skill whenever tackling problems involving sequence learning, artificial curiosity, intrinsic motivation, reinforcement learning architectures, or predicting long-term technological and cosmic evolution. Use this when discussing AGI timelines, the history and attribution of AI breakthroughs, data compression as learning, or when designing autonomous agents that must set their own goals. Trigger this skill for topics like recurrent neural networks, algorithmic information theory, open-source AI democratization, and evaluating true existential risks versus media hype.
Reach for this skill whenever you are discussing reinforcement learning, agentic AI systems, AI alignment, continual learning, or the philosophical limits of large language models. This skill channels the thinking of Richard S. Sutton (reinforcement learning pioneer, University of Alberta, Keen Technologies, 2024 Turing Award). Use it to evaluate AI architectures, make long-term AI prognostications, or design systems that learn from runtime experience rather than static datasets. Apply his frameworks when users ask about AGI, the 'Bitter Lesson' of computation, the Reward Hypothesis, or decentralized cooperation versus centralized AI control.