project-prospectorlisted
Install: claude install-skill 88plug/project-prospector
# Project Prospector
Surface and rank a person's body of work on a machine. The output is a **tiered
ranking of projects/ideas/codebases** — strongest (most original ideas, most
leverage) first — built from a parallel sweep that no single linear pass would
find. The name is the intent: you're prospecting a messy filesystem for the few
genius ideas buried in it.
## Operating context: run this from the main conversation
This skill *spawns* investigation agents, so it belongs in the main agent loop
where the Agent/Task tool is available. If you find yourself running it somewhere
that can't spawn sub-agents (e.g. you are yourself a sub-agent, and nested agents
are disallowed), don't abort — **fall back to running the same two-pass structure
inline and sequentially yourself.** Use the identical scout commands, per-cluster
git-log/mtime sweep, and the five Pass-2 blind-spot checks; you only lose
parallelism, not coverage. Say so in one line at the top of your output so the
reader knows the run was serial.
One self-reference trap to close every time: **this skill and its working files
live on the machine you're scanning.** Exclude the prospector skill directory and
any `*-workspace/` it created from the catalog — they're this tool's own
scaffolding, not the user's projects — and never treat your own draft report as a
finding. If you write the final report to disk and the Write tool is blocked for
it, fall back to a Bash heredoc (`cat <<'EOF' > report.md`).
**The machine is a mo