thepraggyverse
UserElon Musk method skills for strategy, engineering, teams, risk, and execution.
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Indexed Skills (70)
x-compound
Extract one to three reusable lessons or method reviews from a completed x-* session and save only user-approved local Markdown. Use when the user says compound this, save what we learned, what should we remember, or after strategy/engineering/team/risk/company-building work should compound. Do not use for raw session dumps, book excerpts, or automatic writes without authorization; for pruning existing notes use x-memory-refresh; for continuation state use x-handoff.
x-handoff
Create a compact redacted continuation handoff for long x-* method work: current state, next skills, evidence, tests, risks, exact next actions. Use when the user says handoff, continuation note, next-session brief, or a strategy/engineering/team/risk/company-building review must continue in a fresh session. Do not use to dump full transcripts, secrets, or durable project memory; for lessons use x-compound; for pruning use x-memory-refresh.
x-memory-refresh
Refresh local x-* method memory by auditing approved Markdown reviews, lessons, handoffs, knowledge notes, and solution notes for duplicates, stale claims, missing retrieval triggers, and unsafe saved content. Use when the user says refresh memory, audit lessons, dedupe notes, clean up reviews, or docs/reviews and docs/lessons have accumulated. Do not use to invent new lessons (use x-compound), dump raw harness logs, or delete without explicit cleanup authorization.
x-review-pack
Run a close-the-loop review pack: route, apply the primary x-* method, support checks, compound candidates, handoff if needed. Use when the user says review this and close the loop, run the full pack, whole method review, or one pass over a plan/launch/architecture/org/risk decision. Do not use for a single named lens already chosen, install checks (use x-setup), or automatic durable memory writes without separate save authorization.
x-risk
Review systemic and civilization-scale risks: AI alignment, regulation drag, war, energy, population decline, asteroids, fragile infrastructure. Use when the user says risk review, AI safety, systemic downside, release gates, stop conditions, critical infrastructure, or broad downside plans. Do not use for ordinary feature cleanup, pure speed-up, or to dismiss safeguards as bureaucracy.
x-router
Route a vague setup, review-pack, project, product, engineering, org, risk, learning, memory-refresh, or handoff request to the right x-* skill. Use when the user asks which x-skill to use or gives a broad situation needing install check, full pack, purpose, thinking, engineering, teams, urgency, manufacturing, company-building, future, risk, multiplanetary, reading, compounding, memory pruning, or handoff. Do not use when the user already named a specific x-* skill—open that skill directly.
x-setup
Check and explain an elon-musk plugin install across Codex cache, marketplace metadata, direct skill-home symlinks, prompt visibility, and validation commands. Use when the user says check install, is it loaded, setup doctor, why is the skill missing, or how to fix local harness setup. Do not use for method reviews of product strategy, or to delete plugins/edit global config without an explicit ask.
x-teams
Review talent density, builder culture, exceptional ability, high ownership, and direct feedback. Use when the user says hiring, founding team, talent density, performance problems, org health, team design, or output depends on people quality. Do not use for process/meeting drag alone (use x-org), pure manufacturing throughput, or to recommend firing/demotion without fair process and human approval.
n-coverage-auditor
Audit whole-book skill and source coverage. Use when a Naval skill pack or synthesis needs a traceable whole-book coverage audit; magic words like "Audit whether the Naval plugin missed anything". Do not use when answer an ordinary Naval coaching request.
x-5-step-algo
Apply the 5-step algo: question requirements, delete, simplify, accelerate, automate. Use when the user says 5-step algo, delete before automate, optimize the wrong thing, or reviews a product plan, feature, workflow, refactor, migration, or ops path that may still contain unproven requirements. Do not use for pure talent reviews, pure risk reviews, or when the user only wants a purpose/mission check.
x-company-building
Turn a mission into a company-building sequence: prototype, prove, survive, scale, public reality, more-for-less. Use when the user says company-building, startup sequence, beachhead, capital allocation, launch plan, or early customer trust. Do not use for pure hiring reviews, pure manufacturing throughput, or when the user only wants founder conviction or risk gates.
x-engineering
Find where engineering creates value, wins execution, and should drive the product or company. Use when the user says engineering leverage, chief engineer, build vs buy, technical strategy, architecture, or when value depends on making a hard thing real. Do not use for pure org/process drag, pure purpose selection, or manufacturing throughput when the product is already defined and only the factory path is in question.
x-founder
Review founder conviction, all-in decisions, adversity, fear, pain tolerance, and whether a hard mission is worth the cost. Use when the user says all-in, founder bet, quit or stay, pivot, runway, crisis, or high-odds-against choice. Do not use for pure product requirements cleanup, pure hiring process, or as a default hero answer that skips safety and stop conditions.
x-future
Review a product, company, or strategy through abundance, AI, robotics, autonomy, sustainable energy, and human-machine upgrade lenses. Use when the user says future bet, abundance, AI roadmap, robotics, energy future, autonomy, or long-term technology strategy. Do not use for near-term delete/simplify work alone, pure risk gates, or hype without a first transition step.
x-manufacturing
Review production paths by treating the factory, delivery pipeline, operations process, or build system as the product. Use when the user says factory as product, throughput, bottleneck, supplier constraint, rework, CI as factory, deployment flow, fulfillment, or support pipeline. Do not use for pure product vision, pure hiring, or first-principles product design when production is not the constraint.
x-multiplanetary
Turn moonshot missions into staged milestones using multiplanetary, civilization backup, gateway, and long-horizon execution thinking. Use when the user says moonshot, multiplanetary, civilization backup, gateway milestone, or an ambitious deep-tech/infrastructure mission that looks impossible but may be staged. Do not use for ordinary feature plans, near-term 5-step cleanup alone, or vague inspiration without a mission metric.
x-org
Remove organizational drag: unclear communication, boundary problems, meeting load, stale approvals, and fear of failure. Use when the user says org drag, delete meetings, direct communication, cross-team handoffs, decision path, or hierarchy slowing work. Do not use for pure talent density/hiring (use x-teams), pure requirements deletion (use x-5-step-algo), or production bottlenecks (use x-manufacturing).
x-purpose
Review whether work is useful, future-oriented, ambitious, and worth sustained effort. Use when the user says does this matter, purpose review, mission worth it, project selection, startup bet, career decision, or should we build this. Do not use for requirements cleanup (use x-5-step-algo), founder all-in pain tolerance alone (use x-founder), or pure risk gates (use x-risk).
x-reading
Recommend books and learning paths by problem type using the book-derived reading categories. Use when the user says what should I read, reading path, books for engineering/rockets/AI/history/strategy/economics, fiction for worldview, or first-principles learning. Do not use for method reviews of a live plan, or as a raw book dump without a stated learning goal.
x-thinking
Apply the x-* truth-seeking synthesis: separate facts, assumptions, fundamentals, limit tests, and less-wrong updates. Use when the user explicitly asks for x-thinking, a Musk-framed thinking review, or this combined sequence. Do not use for a bare first-principles request, pure speed-up after direction is fixed, pure requirements deletion, or a risk gate.
x-urgency
Increase execution speed by reducing time risk, parallelizing work, breaking down impossible goals, and setting aggressive learning timelines. Use when the user says urgency, accelerate, parallelize, aggressive timeline, critical path, 24-hour cadence, or blocked launch/migration/crisis work that needs faster feedback. Do not use before direction is valid—if requirements are suspect, run x-5-step-algo first; do not use maniacal urgency to override safety or stop conditions.
n-accept-change-leave
Choose acceptance, change, or exit. Use when the user is repeatedly complaining about or resisting a situation without choosing a response; magic words like "Should I accept, change, or leave this". Do not use when recommend acceptance of abuse or unsafe conditions.
n-accountability-risk
Calibrate accountability against real downside. Use when the user is deciding whether to put a name, reputation, capital, or responsibility behind work; magic words like "Should I take public accountability for this". Do not use when legal or financial risk opinion.
n-anger-release
Process anger without surrendering the boundary. Use when anger is repeatedly punishing the user or driving a response that may worsen the situation. Do not use when Prioritize immediate safety and qualified support when violence, abuse, or loss of control is possible.
n-authenticity-positioning
Position work around an authentic advantage. Use when a product, role, or public identity needs differentiation that competitors cannot easily copy. Do not use when already using n-specific-knowledge when the person's underlying edge is still unknown.
n-be-yourself
Recover an original mode of contribution. Use when the user is copying another person's style, career, beliefs, or definition of success. Do not use when already using n-specific-knowledge for marketable rare capability or n-authenticity-positioning for external packaging.
n-big-life-decisions
Frame high-impact life decisions clearly. Use when a city, partner, career, company, or life-direction choice has long and asymmetric consequences. Do not use when already using n-decision-rules for compact heuristics or n-opportunity-scorecard for a scored work opportunity.
n-biographical-context
Connect Naval ideas to relevant life context. Use when the user needs life or career context behind a principle in the Almanack; magic words like "What life context explains this Naval idea". Do not use when use biography as authority or invent motives that the source does not document.
n-book-club
Run a source-grounded Almanack discussion. Use when the user wants a structured discussion of a bounded Almanack chapter or section; magic words like "Run a book club discussion for the wealth…". Do not use when claim to represent unread portions of the book.
n-build-or-sell
Choose a build, sell, or partnership path. Use when the user must choose whether to strengthen product-building, selling, or both; magic words like "Should I learn to build, sell, or both". Do not use when replace product or go-to-market strategy.
n-clear-thinking
Reduce confused thinking to plain fundamentals. Use when an argument, plan, or belief is confused, jargon-heavy, or detached from first principles; magic words like "Make my thinking clearer here". Do not use when already using n-reality-ego-audit when emotional self-protection is the main blocker.
n-daily-review
Run a concise daily Naval review. Use when the user wants a short daily review across health, focus, desire, work, and freedom; magic words like "Run my daily Naval review". Do not use when already using n-weekly-compound-review for trends.
n-death-awareness
Use mortality to clarify what matters. Use when mortality perspective may clarify priorities, resentment, fear, or an overgrown ego conflict; magic words like "Use mortality to clarify this decision". Do not use when Avoid this exercise when it could intensify acute self-harm risk.
n-decision-rules
Apply compact decision rules to a choice. Use when the user needs compact Naval-style heuristics applied to a specific hard choice. Do not use when already using n-big-life-decisions for a full life-context frame or n-opportunity-scorecard for a weighted work comparison.
n-desire-audit
Audit the desire creating present suffering. Use when a strong desire, expectation, or imagined future is producing recurring dissatisfaction. Do not use when already using n-accept-change-leave for an external situation after the desire itself has been identified.
n-diet-simplifier
Simplify diet by subtracting appetite traps. Use when the user wants a simpler eating environment with fewer processed-food and appetite traps; magic words like "Simplify my diet Naval-style". Do not use when prescribing restrictive diets, calorie targets, fasting, or treatment.
n-employment-freedom
Reduce employment dependence in stages. Use when the user wants to reduce dependence on one employer or compulsory wage income; magic words like "How do I become less dependent on employment". Do not use when personalized financial or employment-law advice.
n-envy-antidote
Convert envy into information and release. Use when comparison or jealousy is distorting self-worth, goals, or attention; magic words like "Help me dissolve envy around this person". Do not use when use gratitude language to dismiss injustice, abuse, or legitimate unmet needs.
n-equity-ownership
Move work toward ownership and durable upside. Use when the user wants to move from paid time toward equity, intellectual property, assets, or upside; magic words like "How do I get equity or upside here". Do not use when already using n-employment-freedom for the broader dependency plan.
n-exercise-priority
Make sustainable movement non-negotiable. Use when the user wants consistent movement to become a protected daily or weekly priority; magic words like "Make exercise non-negotiable". Do not use when an individualized training or rehabilitation prescription.
n-falsifiability-truth
Turn a claim into a falsifiable prediction. Use when a claim, forecast, strategy, or belief may be too vague to test or update; magic words like "Is this claim actually testable". Do not use when moral worth or every kind of philosophical meaning.
n-flashcards
Create useful Naval recall and application cards. Use when the user wants Naval principles converted into recall, application, and discrimination cards. Do not use when already using n-source-fidelity when exact source interpretation is uncertain.
n-foundational-learning
Build a first-principles learning foundation. Use when the user needs a durable learning foundation in math, science, economics, persuasion, or computation. Do not use when already using n-reading-curriculum for topic-spanning book paths or n-reading-system for daily reading behavior.
n-freedom-from-expectations
Set boundaries around borrowed expectations. Use when other people's explicit or imagined expectations are controlling commitments or identity; magic words like "Where am I living by others' expectations". Do not use when use freedom language to evade dependents, contracts, consent, or consequences.
n-grow-yourself
Build evidence for a desired future self. Use when the user wants to become capable of a future role through identity, learning, and staged evidence. Do not use when already using n-be-yourself when the central issue is imitation or n-foundational-learning when the gap is primarily educational.
n-habit-change
Replace one habit with an executable loop. Use when the user wants to replace a recurring behavior with clear triggers, substitutes, tracking, and commitment. Do not use when already using n-systems-not-goals when the desired outcome spans multiple behaviors.
n-happiness-baseline
Raise the baseline capacity for happiness. Use when the user wants to train a more stable capacity for peace rather than chase isolated highs. Do not use when already using n-happiness-habits for a concrete habit menu or n-desire-audit when one desire dominates suffering.
n-happiness-habits
Build a small evidence-aware happiness routine. Use when the user wants a practical set of daily behaviors that support mood stability and peace; magic words like "Create a happiness habit plan". Do not use when already using n-happiness-baseline for diagnosis across the whole system.
n-health-first
Reorder commitments around health first. Use when work or ambition is displacing physical, mental, or relational health; magic words like "Reorder my life around health first". Do not use when diagnosing or prescribing.
n-identity-shedding
Loosen identities that block reality. Use when an inherited label, tribe, ideology, credential, or stale self-image constrains learning or action; magic words like "What identity is trapping my thinking". Do not use when pressure users to abandon protected, cultural, or relational identities.
n-integrity-partner-filter
Filter collaborators for integrity and energy. Use when the user needs a qualitative trust and character check on a potential collaborator. Do not use when already using n-relationship-scorecard when numerical comparison across several people or dimensions is useful.
n-inversion-filter
Invert a plan to expose failure paths. Use when the user needs to find failure paths, avoidable errors, or what must not happen; magic words like "How could this fail". Do not use when already using n-risk-of-ruin when catastrophic survival risk is central.
n-judgment-builder
Build judgment through decisions and feedback. Use when the user wants a repeatable system for improving consequential decisions over time. Do not use when already using n-decision-rules for one choice or n-mental-models for a specific analytical lens.
n-judgment-compensation
Translate judgment into leveraged compensation. Use when the user wants compensation tied to high-quality decisions rather than hours worked; magic words like "How do I become paid for judgment". Do not use when already using n-judgment-builder to improve decision process.
n-leverage-stack
Design a permissionless leverage stack. Use when the user needs to scale useful output with code, media, capital, labor, distribution, or automation; magic words like "What leverage can I add to this project". Do not use when already using n-build-or-sell or n-judgment-compensation.
n-life-formulas
Build and unpack a Naval-style life formula. Use when the user wants a compact formula-like model for health, wealth, happiness, learning, or income; magic words like "Show the formula behind this area". Do not use when already using n-rules for a compact behavioral reminder.
n-long-term-games
Evaluate long-term games and compounding fit. Use when the user is evaluating whether a market, project, or relationship can compound over years. Do not use when already using n-integrity-partner-filter for a person's character or n-relationship-scorecard for a structured comparison.
n-luck-engineering
Engineer exposure to all four forms of luck. Use when the user wants to increase useful serendipity through activity, preparation, reputation, and character; magic words like "How do I make luck find me". Do not use when promise outcomes or disguise reckless volume as luck creation.
n-meaning-maker
Construct a provisional personal meaning. Use when the user wants to construct personal meaning without borrowing a universal answer. Do not use when present Naval's agnosticism as a final answer for the user or dismiss religious and cultural sources of meaning.
n-meditation-system
Design a practical sixty-day meditation protocol. Use when the user wants a sustained meditation or awareness protocol, including the book's sixty-day experiment; magic words like "Design a 60-day meditation protocol". Do not use when already using n-presence-practice or n-mental-debugging.
n-memory-refresh
Refresh optional Naval memory safely. Use when saved Naval reviews, learnings, decisions, or scorecards need deduplication and freshness review; magic words like "Refresh my saved Naval learnings". Do not use when enable storage or silently rewrite private material.
n-mental-debugging
Debug one recurring internal loop. Use when the user wants to inspect a recurring thought, emotional reaction, fear, or ego loop as a process; magic words like "Debug my internal monologue". Do not use when frame severe distress as a simple bug.
n-mental-models
Select and apply relevant mental models. Use when the user needs multiple foundational lenses for a decision, claim, or system. Do not use when already using n-inversion-filter for failure-first analysis or n-falsifiability-truth for one claim's testability.
n-modern-addiction-defense
Audit and redesign high-reward environments. Use when screens, feeds, news, games, porn, processed food, stimulants, or other high-reward products are capturing behavior; magic words like "Audit my environment for modern traps". Do not use when diagnosing addiction or advising unsafe withdrawal.
n-next-sources
Point to official Naval source trails. Use when the user wants official or primary places to continue with Naval's essays, podcast, or source trail. Do not use when already using n-source-fidelity to verify a claim or n-reading-curriculum for non-Naval books.
n-opportunity-scorecard
Score an opportunity through Naval lenses. Use when a job, startup, project, product, content bet, or investment-like opportunity needs structured comparison. Do not use when already using n-big-life-decisions when ordinary life consequences dominate the opportunity itself.
n-patience-compounding
Balance urgent action with patient compounding. Use when the user must distinguish urgent action from the patience required for results to compound; magic words like "Where do I need patience versus action". Do not use when already using n-long-term-games to evaluate the game itself.
n-peace-over-joy
Trade stimulation chasing for durable peace. Use when the user is optimizing for stimulation, intensity, or emotional highs at the expense of stable peace; magic words like "Am I optimizing for peace or excitement". Do not use when frame emotional flatness, withdrawal, or depression as peace.
n-presence-practice
Practice returning attention to present reality. Use when the user needs a brief repeatable exercise for returning attention from rumination or anticipation. Do not use when already using n-meditation-system for a sustained protocol or n-present-moment for choosing immediate action on inspiration.
n-present-moment
Convert perishable inspiration into present action. Use when the user has a perishable inspiration or keeps postponing a meaningful action into an imagined future; magic words like "What should I do immediately". Do not use when already using n-presence-practice for attentional training.
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