# automate-me

Builds or updates a personal -mode skill from working habits, user answers, and recent transcripts. Use it when an agent should follow how you work.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 868 installs · ★ 3451
- Author: michael-denyer
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/tree/HEAD/plugins/pstack/skills/automate-me/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/michael-denyer-automate-me

## What it does

automate-me turns a user's working habits into one personal -mode skill. It checks for an existing file, reviews history from the active workspace, and looks for repeated rules about response style, delegation, verification, code, prose, and Git workflow.

The skill sequences three parts: mining transcript signals, authoring with `plugin-dev:skill-development`, and prose cleanup through `unslop`. It then asks structured questions, shows a draft, and edits an existing file or creates a new one. Update runs inspect history since the skill was last edited.

Transcripts are read from the active workspace path rather than across all projects. That is a reason to check the access boundary before running it. The flow also calls for a worktree, commit, and PR instead of pushing directly to main.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude --path plugins/pstack/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 michael-denyer/pstack-claude --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/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/tree/HEAD/plugins/pstack/skills/automate-me/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a personal -mode skill from working habits
- update an existing skill from recent history
- find recurring rules in workspace transcripts
- resolve uncertain preferences through structured questions
- move the changes through a worktree, commit, and PR

## Example prompts
- Run `automate-me` and build a personal -mode skill from my working habits.
- Update my -mode skill using recent transcripts, then show me the draft.
- Turn my preferences for response style, code review, and Git work into a 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 plugin-dev:skill-development + unslop, optionally pulling fresh evidence from recent transcripts."
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# Automate me

On Codex, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/codex-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

On GitHub Copilot, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/copilot-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

On Muse, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/muse-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

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), the **plugin-dev:skill-development** skill (authoring), and the **unslop** skill (prose discipline). It sequences them. It doesn't replace them.

## Flow

### 0. Check for an existing skill

Look recursively for `.claude/skills/**/*-mode/SKILL.md` and `${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/skills/*-mode/SKILL.md` matching the user's handle. Mode skills can live in a personal category directory (`.claude/skills/<handle>/`), not only at the top level. If one exists, confirm intent with `AskUserQuestion` (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. Claude Code stores them at `${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/projects/<encoded-cwd>/*.jsonl`. Run `node <plugin>/skills/reflect/scripts/claude-project-dir.mjs` to print this session's directory rather than building `<encoded-cwd>` by hand. Use only that path. Don't glob across `${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/projects/`. That crosses workspace boundaries and reads private chats from unrelated projects.
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