Lauren Tan’s skills

Lauren Tan9 (poteto) ships skills across four repos. Her talk on verification and skills is on Lauren Tan9 and the Dune talk7.

brainmaxxing is “stupid simple persistent memory for Claude Code”. The agent reads its folder of Markdown memory files at session start and writes to it when it learns something. It ships 16 starter principles and six skills. brain supplies the vault workflow; plan and review support structured work.

Three form a learning loop:

SkillJob
reflectAfter sessions.
ruminateOver past conversations.
meditateAudit and prune.

The README says /reflect alone gets you most of the value. Skills

noodle is “skill-based agent orchestration,” built in Go. You write skills as markdown files. Noodle’s loop schedules and runs them.

It adds one field to skill frontmatter, schedule. A skill with it becomes autonomous. The scheduler reads its value as prose. The minimum loop is a schedule skill and an execute skill.

The repo’s own skills include adversarial-review, quality, execute, and schedule.

how is a Cursor plugin with one skill, /how. It explains how a subsystem or flow works. Critique mode runs critics across different models. For complex questions, it runs parallel explorer subagents and reconciles their findings.

verification-skill-example is a fictionalized example of a project-local verification skill with a list of features and checks that verify their behavior. About 30 files cover one feature area each. Its README argues that a wiki is for humans. Agents pay for every token they reread.

It argues that a scoped skill plus feature map is cheaper to use and maintained as code. The README calls it a private reference and says the driver scripts are omitted.

Related: Matt Pocock’s skills7.

Sources

  1. GitHub - poteto/brainmaxxing: stupid simple persistent memory and skill improvement · GitHub. GitHub poteto/brainmaxxing. Memory repository; used for the vault and learning-loop skills. Accessed 2026-10-01.
  2. GitHub - poteto/noodle: Orchestrate agents using skills · GitHub. GitHub poteto/noodle. Orchestration repository; used for scheduled markdown skills. Accessed 2026-10-01.
  3. GitHub - poteto/how: skill for explaining architecture · GitHub. GitHub poteto/how. Architecture explanation skill; used for exploration and critique modes. Accessed 2026-10-01.
  4. GitHub - poteto/verification-skill-example: Example: project-local verification skill + large-app feature map (fictional Atlas / Harbor Labs) · GitHub. GitHub poteto/verification-skill-example. Verification example; used for scoped skills and a behavior-level feature map. Accessed 2026-10-01.

Last changed 2026-10-07 in f1a00f2. Source on GitHub. Change log.

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  1. Agent guide. An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush.
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    Lauren Tan’s skills — Lauren Tan (poteto) publishes skills in several repos: brainmaxxing for memory and skill improvement, noodle for skill-based orchestration, how for explaining a codebase, and a verification-skill example.

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    Lauren Tan’s skills — edited: feat(learn): teach cards 43 to 62 with plain lines, diagrams and snippets

  3. Full agent guide. An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush.
  4. Matt Pocock's skills. Matt Pocock's skills repo packages the agent skills he says he uses every day, built to be small, adaptable, and composable.

    Related: Lauren Tan’s skills.¶

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    Lauren Tan’s skills — Lauren Tan (poteto) publishes skills in several repos: brainmaxxing for memory and skill improvement, noodle for skill-based orchestration, how for explaining a codebase, and a verification-skill example.

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    Lauren Tan’s skills — edited: feat(learn): teach cards 43 to 62 with plain lines, diagrams and snippets