# Claude Code Skills and Commands Auto-generated cheat sheet. Regenerate with: `python3 ~/.claude/scripts/generate-skill-cheatsheet.py` 100 total (61 skills, 39 commands) In current Claude Code, skills and commands both create `/slash-commands` and work the same way. Skills are the newer format with more features (supporting files, invocation control). ## Writing and Voice | Command | Description | | --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | `/abstract` | Generate publication-ready abstract matching Nick Young's academic style | | `/audit-against-plan` | Audit a draft against a supplied plan or checklist and identify every omission, compression, merge, or implicit-only coverage. Use when Nick asks w... | | `/bibliography-create` | Create verified bibliographies for academic drafts. Use when user provides a draft with inline citations and needs a bibliography. | | `/cev` | Coherent Extrapolated Volition - comprehensive analysis of what a draft would look like developed to its fullest potential. | | `/deep-writing-mode` | Bundle philosophical writing skills for deep manuscript work. Use when Nick says 'deep writing mode', 'manuscript mode', or invokes /deep-writing-m... | | `/draft-audit` | Post-hoc audit of manuscript drafts — runs both voice-fix and source-check on the target note. Use when Nick says 'audit this', 'check this draft',... | | `/epistemic-discipline` | Detailed epistemic rules for capturing developing ideas without imposing hierarchy. Use when creating notes, updating session files, summarizing Ni... | | `/live-note` | Build a note in real time during an exploratory philosophical conversation. Use when Nick says "live note", "build a note as we go", "capture this ... | | `/martin-voice` | Write in M.G.F. Martin's philosophical voice. Use when user asks to write, draft, or rewrite something in Martin's style, or when working on percep... | | `/minimal-edit` | High-impact minimal edits - find small but very effective tweaks that maximize improvement with minimal intervention. | | `/nick-analytic-voice` | Nick Young's analytic philosophical writing voice. Use when writing, drafting, editing, or revising manuscripts, papers, developed notes, or Substa... | | `/nick-essayistic-voice` | Nick Young's non-academic writing voice for general audiences. ALWAYS use when writing Substack essays, magazine pieces, public philosophy, corresp... | | `/nick-philosophical-prose` | Invoke during or after philosophical conversation when drafting philosophical prose — research papers, Substack essays, or developed notes that arg... | | `/paper-support` | Find relevant notes, citations, and ideas for active manuscripts. Support academic writing with vault content. | | `/quickfire` | Interactive co-writing skill for developing academic philosophy drafts through targeted questions and real-time prose generation. Use when Nick wan... | | `/source-check` | ALWAYS invoke when user says 'check the sources', 'verify the characterisations', 'source check', 'are the authors right', 'accuracy check', or /so... | | `/style-edit` | Edit text to analytic philosophy style standards | | `/substack-draft` | Generate blog post ideas and outlines grounded in vault content. Create Substack drafts from research notes. | | `/twork` | Deep philosophical engagement with %%comments%% in drafts. Use when user says /twork, 'work through my comments', 'help me think through these %%co... | | `/voice-fix` | ALWAYS invoke when encountering %%not how i write%%, %%not my style%%, %%voice issues%%, or similar voice-flagging %%comments%% in manuscript draft... | | `/write-from-plan` | Write prose from a user-supplied plan or outline with exhaustive plan coverage. Use when Nick says to follow a plan, instantiate an outline, write ... | | `/writing-standards` | Writing conventions for quotation marks, italics, bold restraint, punctuation, and note titles. Use when writing formal content, academic text, or ... | ## Research and Thinking | Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | `/contemplate` | Engage in extremely thorough, self-questioning reasoning with visible deliberation. Use when user invokes /contemplate, asks for deep thinking on a... | | `/gemini-deep-research` | Write prompts for Google Gemini Deep Research that guard against hallucination, fabricated citations, and invented statistics. Use when user asks f... | | `/hegelian-dialectic` | Structured dialectic framework using Electric Monks (opposing AI agents) to stress-test ideas through productive contradiction. Use when user invok... | | `/source-work` | ALWAYS invoke when working with academic sources — PDFs, EPUBs, articles, scholarly texts. Use when reading a paper, discussing what an author argu... | ## Obsidian and Vault | Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | `/concept-linker` | Find unexpected connections between vault domains. Discover cross-domain conceptual links. | | `/conversation-extraction` | Extract philosophical ideas from LLM conversations into standalone notes. Use when user pastes a conversation transcript, asks to 'strip', 'extract... | | `/create-moc` | Auto-generate Maps of Content (MOCs) from semantic search results. Organize related notes into structured index pages. | | `/daily-note-create` | Create today's daily note. Usually automatic via /morning-review, but available for manual use. | | `/daily-session-log` | Scan ALL sessions from today and record summaries in daily note. Use at end of day to ensure all session activity is documented. | | `/json-canvas` | Create and edit JSON Canvas files (.canvas) with nodes, edges, groups, and connections. Use when working with .canvas files, creating visual canvas... | | `/log-activity` | Internal utility to log activity to daily note Actions section. Called by other commands. | | `/morning-review` | Daily briefing with calendar, tasks, emails, vault activity, and adaptive questions. Your morning at a glance. | | `/moves` | Work with philosophical argument structure as bullet-point moves. Use when Nick has a note open with moves as bullets (or wants to create one), and... | | `/notebooklm` | Import NotebookLM notebooks into your Obsidian vault as linked knowledge graphs. Sources become wikilink-able files, Q&A answers get citations reso... | | `/obsidian-bases` | Create and edit Obsidian Bases (.base files) with views, filters, formulas, and summaries. Use when working with .base files, creating database-lik... | | `/obsidian-markdown` | Create and edit Obsidian Flavored Markdown with wikilinks, embeds, callouts, properties, and other Obsidian-specific syntax. Use when working with ... | | `/open-note` | IMMEDIATELY execute Obsidian CLI to open note in app when user says "open [note]", "show [note]", "pull up [note]", or "view [note]". NEVER use Rea... | | `/recall` | Search and recall past conversations and vault content. Three modes: temporal (what did we do yesterday?), topic (find conversations about X), and ... | | `/research-query` | Semantic search across vault for philosophy research concepts. Find notes by meaning, not just keywords. | | `/review-session` | Safety net - review conversation to identify missed notes/tasks/events. Offer to create missing items. | | `/semantic-search` | Find semantically related notes using Smart Connections | | `/skill-cheatsheet` | Regenerate the Claude Code Skills and Commands cheat sheet note from current skill/command files. | | `/smart-note` | Create notes with automatic wiki links, tags, and YAML frontmatter. All content becomes standalone notes. | | `/system-status` | Full system introspection report showing architecture, component relationships, health status, and recent activity. Use when you need to understand... | | `/tag-conventions` | Tag and wiki-link conventions for vault notes. Use when creating, editing, tagging, or reviewing notes. Reference for which tags to use and how to ... | | `/youtube-note` | Process YouTube video into structured note with transcript and analysis | ## Google Workspace | Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | `/calendar-add` | Add a calendar event using the gws CLI. | | `/calendar-delete` | Delete Google Calendar events using the gws CLI. | | `/calendar-move` | Move Google Calendar events between calendars using the gws CLI. | | `/calendar-query` | Query Google Calendar using the gws CLI. ALWAYS use this for schedule/calendar questions. | | `/email-reply` | Generate email reply suggestions based on your style and contact context. Paste incoming email, get reply draft. | | `/gmail-search` | Search Gmail using the gws CLI. Use when user asks about emails, inbox, or messages. | | `/google-calendar` | Legacy Google Calendar wrapper for the old Python scripts. Do not use for normal calendar work; prefer gws-calendar, gws-calendar-agenda, and the g... | | `/google-tasks` | Legacy Google Tasks wrapper for the old Python scripts. Do not use for normal task work; prefer gws-tasks and the gws-backed task commands. | | `/google-tasks-sync` | Sync Google Tasks into Google Tasks.md using the gws-backed bridge. ALWAYS run this first when user asks about tasks and you need the cached vault ... | | `/gws-calendar` | Google Calendar: Manage calendars and events. | | `/gws-calendar-agenda` | Google Calendar: Show upcoming events across all calendars. | | `/gws-calendar-insert` | Google Calendar: Create a new event. | | `/gws-docs` | Read and write Google Docs. | | `/gws-docs-write` | Google Docs: Append text to a document. | | `/gws-drive` | Google Drive: Manage files, folders, and shared drives. | | `/gws-drive-upload` | Google Drive: Upload a file with automatic metadata. | | `/gws-gmail` | Gmail: Send, read, and manage email. | | `/gws-gmail-send` | Gmail: Send an email. | | `/gws-gmail-triage` | Gmail: Show unread inbox summary (sender, subject, date). | | `/gws-keep` | Manage Google Keep notes. | | `/gws-shared` | gws CLI: Shared patterns for authentication, global flags, and output formatting. | | `/gws-sheets` | Google Sheets: Read and write spreadsheets. | | `/gws-sheets-append` | Google Sheets: Append a row to a spreadsheet. | | `/gws-sheets-read` | Google Sheets: Read values from a spreadsheet. | | `/gws-slides` | Google Slides: Read and write presentations. | | `/gws-tasks` | Google Tasks: Manage task lists and tasks. | | `/gws-workflow` | Google Workflow: Cross-service productivity workflows. | | `/gws-workflow-meeting-prep` | Google Workflow: Prepare for your next meeting: agenda, attendees, and linked docs. | | `/gws-workflow-weekly-digest` | Google Workflow: Weekly summary: this week's meetings + unread email count. | | `/tasks-add` | Add a new Google Task using the gws CLI. Use when the user wants to create or save a task. | | `/tasks-complete` | Mark Google Task(s) as completed using the gws CLI. | ## Session and Memory | Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | `/checkpoint` | Save a checkpoint of the current conversation's thinking state for session continuity. Use when user says /checkpoint, "save where we are", "checkp... | | `/link-chat` | Link this conversation to another active session. Use when user wants to monitor another chat, cross-reference conversations, or work with parallel... | | `/remember` | Bank a passage from the current conversation to a project's integration queue. Use when user says "remember that", "save that", "bank that", or "/r... | | `/session-deep` | Deep reading of past Claude Code sessions. Use when user asks about previous conversations, 'yesterday we talked about', 'get up to speed', 'what d... | | `/session-search` | Search past Claude Code conversations for a topic or keyword. Use when user asks "what did we discuss about X?", "find our conversation about Y", "... | | `/session-summary` | Summarize recent Claude Code conversations. Use when user asks "what did we work on?", "summarize recent sessions", "what have we been doing?", or ... | ## System and Maintenance | Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | `/config-audit` | Review config files for contradictions, unclear instructions, and documentation drift. Unlike /system-check (structural), this checks semantic cohe... | | `/evolve` | Self-improvement - encode learnings from conversation into Claude's system files | | `/file-management` | ALWAYS invoke this skill BEFORE ANY Bash command involving Downloads, Learning, .claude, Google Drive, or external paths. NEVER attempt direct path... | | `/friction-analysis` | Surface friction points from recent conversations, diagnose what type of problem each represents, and suggest interventions at the appropriate syst... | | `/review` | Quick status check - tasks, emails, calendar (today/tomorrow), weather. Use for a fast overview anytime. | | `/skill-creator` | Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, update or... | | `/system-check` | Validate system integrity - check that all references resolve, files exist, and components are properly connected. Run this to catch drift and brok... | | `/weekly-review` | Weekly Review | ## Content and Media | Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | `/frontend-slides` | Create stunning, animation-rich HTML presentations from scratch or by converting PowerPoint files. Use when the user wants to build a presentation,... | | `/pdf` | Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Cla... | | `/pdf-intake` | Move and rename the most recently downloaded PDF or EPUB to the Learning folder. Use when user says 'move pdf to learning', 'rename the download', ... | | `/pptx` | Create, edit, and analyze PowerPoint presentations. Use when working with .pptx files for creating presentations, modifying slides, or analyzing pr... | | `/readwise` | Send documents to Readwise library. Use when user mentions sending, adding, or importing something to Readwise. | | `/readwise-reader` | Open, navigate, search, and highlight documents in Readwise Reader via Chrome browser automation. Use when user asks to open a document in Readwise... | ## Other | Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | `/cinema` | Search for OV (original version) movie showtimes near Città Studi, Milan. Use when user asks about movies playing, cinema showtimes, or what's on. |