# automate-me

Turns your daily coding habits into a personal -mode skill by mining recent workspace transcripts and running structured questionnaires.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 5100 installs · ★ 2737
- Author: backnotprop
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/backnotprop/pstack/tree/HEAD/skills/automate-me/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-26
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/automate-me

## What it does

This skill orchestrates the creation of a personal `-mode` skill tailored to your habits. It sequences transcript mining, your harness's authoring tool (`create-skill` or `skill-creator`), and the `unslop` prose discipline skill. Before authoring, it checks directories like `.claude/skills/` or `.cursor/skills/` for existing `*-mode/SKILL.md` files. If an earlier version exists, update mode checks changes via `git log` and edits the file in place.

Mining stays strictly inside the active workspace directory to avoid reading unrelated project transcripts. Parallel subagents review session logs from the past 2–4 weeks. They track response length, autonomy, git habits, and testing patterns. Isolated signals get dropped. A short multi-choice questionnaire then fills any blind spots.

The workflow depends on having `create-skill` and `unslop` available in your harness. By default, the generated mode file sets `disable-model-invocation: true`, so the agent activates your rules only when explicitly called.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add backnotprop/pstack --skill automate-me -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/automate-me/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/automate-me/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add backnotprop/pstack --skill automate-me -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/automate-me/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add backnotprop/pstack --skill automate-me -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/automate-me/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install backnotprop/pstack automate-me
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/automate-me/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add backnotprop/pstack --skill automate-me -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/backnotprop/pstack --path skills/automate-me
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/automate-me/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add backnotprop/pstack --skill automate-me -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/backnotprop/pstack/tree/HEAD/skills/automate-me/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- mine developer preferences from conversation logs
- draft a personal mode skill for agents to follow
- update existing personal skills from recent sessions
- filter one-off project instructions from recurring rules

## Example prompts
- Automate my workflow into a personal skill.
- Update jay-mode based on recent session history.
- Capture my review habits into my mode skill.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: automate-me
description: "Use for \"automate me\", \"create/update/refresh my -mode skill\", \"turn/capture my preferences or working style into a skill\", or wanting agents to follow how the user works. Drafts or revises a personal -mode skill via create-skill + unslop, optionally pulling fresh evidence from recent transcripts."
disable-model-invocation: true
---

# Automate me

A guided flow for turning the user's working conventions into a skill agents will follow. The output is one `-mode` skill tailored to them (e.g. `jay-mode`, `priya-mode`).

This skill orchestrates three others: an inline mining pass (see step 1), your harness's skill-authoring skill (authoring), and the **unslop** skill (prose discipline). It sequences them. It doesn't replace them.

The skill-authoring skill is `create-skill` in Cursor (built in) or Anthropic's `skill-creator`. If you have neither, follow the Agent Skills format at agentskills.io. "`create-skill`" below means whichever of these you use.

## Flow

### 0. Check for an existing skill

Look recursively for `*-mode/SKILL.md` matching the user's handle in your harness's skill folders. In the project: `.cursor/skills/` (Cursor), `.claude/skills/` (Claude Code), `.pi/skills/` (Pi), or `.agents/skills/` (Codex, OpenCode, and others). For the user: `~/.cursor/skills/`, `~/.claude/skills/`, `~/.pi/agent/skills/`, `~/.codex/skills/`, `~/.config/opencode/skills/`, or `~/.agents/skills/`. Mode skills can live in a personal category directory (`<skills>/<handle>/`), not only at the top level. If one exists, confirm intent with your structured-question tool (`AskQuestion` in Cursor, `AskUserQuestion` in Claude Code, `question` in OpenCode) unless they already said "update my skill" or similar:

- Update the existing skill (default for repeat runs)
- Start fresh (rare, ask why before doing it)

Update mode changes the rest of the flow:
- Step 1 mines only history since the skill was last edited (`git log -1 --format=%cI <path>`).
- Step 2 asks what's changed or missing, not what to capture from zero.
- Step 4 edits the existing file in place. Preserve sections the user hasn't contradicted. Revise ones with new evidence. Add new sections only for genuinely new rules.

### 1. Mine their history

Locate the active workspace's transcripts before fanning out. Use only that workspace's directory. Don't glob across every project's directory. That crosses workspace boundaries and reads private chats from unrelated projects. Where they live depends on your harness:

- **Cursor:** the system prompt names the workspace's `agent-transcripts/` directory under `~/.cursor/projects/`.
- **Claude Code:** `~/.claude/projects/<slug>/*.jsonl`, where `<slug>` is the workspace path with every character that isn't a letter or digit turned into "-".
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