Anyone writing Claude Code skills and wants to try my tool helping with that?

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Hi all,

I’m scratching my own itch and writing a tool to help with managing Claude Code skills. It’s currently in a very early stage, but it’s already functional and dare I say even useful.

Is there anyone here who’d like to try it out and give me some feedback?

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I would definitely be interested in doing so, but it might take me a bit to get going because I’m still only gradually taking claude code seriously enough to figure out how to integrate it into my workflow. (And programming is just part of my job, not my job.) But over the coming weeks or months, certainly.

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I also have Claude Code and I could maybe try it out, though I haven’t really played around with skills much.

If you’re writing a skill to interact with Beeminder directly, @narthur’s Buzz CLI might be useful?

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I use Claude Code skills all the time. They’re super powerful.

And, yup, Claude Code is great at using Buzz! (And CLI’s in general.)

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Oh, no, never! I would never let Claude anywhere close to my private data like Beeminder! Very, very, very bad idea!

My tool is not Beeminder-related (so I posted in in the Tech section of the forum, not Akrasia). It’s a tool to manage skills (go see the README, it starts with explaining the problems it solves/will solve).

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I’ll take a look over the next few weeks. We use Claude Code quite a bit at work, so I have some pretty basic familiarity.

But yeah, I echo the concerns about letting it near your private data. Simplify processes, but don’t let it into your private details. Anthropic is not your friend.

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I’d suggest structuring your goals such that they don’t contain explicitly private data in the first place. E.g. if a goal is tracking something of a private nature, name it something ambiguous, and don’t put anything you wouldn’t want to become public at some point in your data point comments.

Reasons being:

  • Beeminder goals are public by default (excluding data point comments).
  • When Beeminder support helps you with a goal they can see everything.
  • If you’ve handled your goals this way, you can use things like third-party Beeminder integrations and AI tools without worrying what you’re giving somebody access to.
  • It’s just sound advice for using the internet generally. Data breaches happen to the best of companies.
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Hi @mbork , why is it a very, very bad idea?

I just let Claude in Cowork help me gather docs for my taxes due to my ADHD & some of them are health-related.

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