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Makerskills - Setup Guide

Source: coreyhaines31/makerskills GitHub: coreyhaines31/makerskills (681⭐, created June 3, 2026, actively maintained) Catalog size: 23 skills, 4.7K total installs (publisher page, authoritative count) Category: Business Operations & Knowledge Management First Seen: July 2, 2026 on skills.sh Quality Tier: 🟡 Trusted (Gen Agent Trust Hub: Pass, Socket: Pass, Snyk: Warn)

Makerskills is a cohesive suite of agent skills for the personal operator's craft: decisions, research, knowledge vaults, content rotation, scenario modeling, and finance. Each skill is a standalone SKILL.md playbook with standard frontmatter (name, description, metadata) and no platform binding, so they load natively in Hermes Agent like any other skill.

Compatibility note: the repo README targets Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, and the playbook prose is Claude-flavored ("so Claude can answer questions"). The mechanics are agent-agnostic procedural workflows (vaults, modes, triggers) with no Claude-specific tool requirements; Hermes users install through the skills.sh CLI or by copying individual SKILL.md files.

Overview

Skill Installs Domain
watch-video 339 Content intake
decide 303 Decision workflow
social-fetch 268 Social content intake
read-book 265 Reading workflow
business-brainstorm 242 Strategy
second-brain 241 Personal knowledge vault
jab-hook 239 Content rotation
company-brain 238 Team knowledge vault
slide-deck 238 Presentation generation
loopify 231 Workflow automation
toolify 231 Tool authoring
pm 231 Product management
paste 228 Clipboard sharing
skillify 227 Skill authoring
deep-research 223 Multi-source research
company-cfo 221 Business finance
domain 216 Domain research
personal-cfo 216 Personal finance
unstuck 167 Creative unblocking
maker-council 96 Scenario modeling
adapt-skill 1 Meta: adapt skills
update-skill 1 Meta: update skills
create-skill 1 Meta: author skills

Not included: none excluded; the three 1-install meta-skills (adapt-skill, update-skill, create-skill) are authoring utilities documented in the roster above rather than given separate guides.

Installation

Install the full suite via the skills.sh CLI:

npx skills add coreyhaines31/makerskills

Install individual skills by name:

npx skills add https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill company-brain

Or copy a playbook directly into your Hermes skills directory (the repo stores 20 SKILL.md files under skills/):

mkdir -p ~/.hermes/skills/makerskills
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills/main/skills/company-brain/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.hermes/skills/makerskills/company-brain/SKILL.md

Prerequisites

Requirement Details
Hermes Agent Any version with skills directory support (~/.hermes/skills/)
Node.js 18+ Only for the npx skills CLI path
No API keys The playbooks are knowledge and decision guides; they use tools you already have configured
Network (optional) Only needed for npx skills fetch or raw.githubusercontent.com downloads

What It Provides

Knowledge vaults

second-brain wraps the Karpathy LLM Wiki schema over any Obsidian or markdown vault with a raw → wiki → outputs pipeline (capture, compile, query, lint, connect, search modes; defaults to ${SECOND_BRAIN_VAULT:-$HOME/Documents/SecondBrain}). company-brain is the team-scope sibling with structured category dirs (people, companies, meetings, SOPs, decisions, sales-objections) plus capture, compile, query, review, lint, connect, and search modes, with author and timestamp stamping on every capture.

Research and decisions

deep-research runs multi-pass research with source planning, verification, citations, contradictions, and gap analysis, archiving every run to ~/.config/makerskills/deep-research/archive/ so the corpus compounds. decide walks the 37signals Guide to Making Decisions question set (plus an opportunity-cost question), triages to the 6-8 load-bearing questions, and archives every call with a revisit date.

Business operations

company-cfo and personal-cfo bring finance discipline to business and personal money questions. business-brainstorm and maker-council cover strategy generation and scenario modeling. pm applies product-management discipline to spec work. domain researches a business domain before diving in.

Content and workflow

watch-video, read-book, and social-fetch turn content into vault captures. jab-hook manages content rotation, slide-deck generates presentations from vault material, paste shares clipboard state, unstuck breaks creative blocks, and loopify chains skills into repeatable workflows. skillify, toolify, and the three meta-skills close the loop by authoring new skills from your own patterns.

Quick Start

# Install the full suite
npx skills add coreyhaines31/makerskills

# Start a personal knowledge vault
# Trigger: "/second-brain" or "capture this"

# Start a team knowledge vault
# Trigger: "/company-brain" or "log this meeting"

# Run a research pass
# Trigger: "/deep-research" or "do a deep dive on X"

CorpusIQ Use Cases

Use Case How
Memory architecture Use second-brain and company-brain patterns as reference designs alongside GBrain and Honcho when discussing agent memory layers
Lead research Use deep-research for pre-call prospect research and due diligence
Deal decisions Use decide to log go/no-go calls with revisit dates on partnerships and placements
Finance checks Use company-cfo as a review lens for budget and spend questions
Content ops Use jab-hook and watch-video patterns for content rotation across CorpusIQ social surfaces
Skill authoring Use skillify and the meta-skills when converting recurring agent workflows into skills

Limitations / Verification

  • Below the usual 20K publisher bar; drafted on suite-scale precedent (23 cohesive skills, 4.7K publisher-page installs, 681⭐, active development the day of the sweep) and direct relevance to business-operator agents
  • The repo README and playbook prose target Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor; Hermes installs via the paths above, and tool references (e.g. deep-research naming WebSearch, WebFetch, Notion) map onto equivalent Hermes tools
  • Snyk flags a Warn on the security audit (Gen Agent Trust Hub and Socket pass) - review SKILL.md files before activation
  • Install counts are from skills.sh publisher pages as of the August 24, 2026 sweep; API search undercounts this cluster ~10x
# Verify skills installed
ls ~/.hermes/skills/makerskills/

# Verify the skills.sh listing
npx skills find "company-brain" --json 2>&1 | grep skills.sh

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