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57 free skill files in 7 playbooks, each in PRISM format: Purpose, Rules, Inventory, Steps, Metrics. Updated November 3, 2026.
57 skills
Purpose:: Say in plain words what your product sells and what that makes it.
Steps::
- 1. Read the idea
- 2. Name the thing the buyer walks away with (a list, a reply, a report, a file)
- 3. Name the kind of maker that produces it (a teacher, a cook, a mechanic)
- 4. Fill: I sell _, so I am _
Say what you sell in plain words
Name the concrete thing your buyer gets, and what that makes you.
Purpose:: Flip what you sell into what it is a means to, then flip again into a human outcome.
Steps::
- 1. Take the output after "I sell"
- 2. Ask: why does the buyer want it? Fill: <output> is a means to <goal>
- 3. Ask once more: what does that goal unlock for a person?
- 4. Fill like the brands: <Verb>ing our <product> is a means to <outcome>
Flip what you sell into what it is a means to
Turn your output into the bigger goal it serves, twice, like the big brands do.
Purpose:: Pick the strongest "to ..." goal from your flips and sharpen it.
Steps::
- 1. Read the goal in each flip
- 2. Take the biggest, most human one
- 3. Cut it to max 8 words that still mean it
- 4. Reply with that phrase, ending with a period
Pick the one goal your brand stands for
Choose the strongest "to ..." goal from your flips and cut it to t-shirt size.
Purpose:: Write one clear purpose statement: what it stands for, what it is used for, how it is experienced and its main benefit.
Steps::
- 1. Stands for: take your "to ..." goal
- 2. Used for: take what you sell
- 3. Experienced: how a user feels while using it
- 4. Benefit: the one big win for the user
Write a purpose statement
Draft, then finalise one sentence that says what you stand for, what you are used for, how it feels and the big win.
Purpose:: Know your buyer in four short parts: head, heart, hands and feet.
Steps::
- 1. Picture the buyer from the purpose statement
- 2. Head: the problem they face and why they think it is hard
- 3. Heart: the outcome they want most, then "Afraid of" + their fear
- 4. Hands: 3-5 actions they take today, in order
Map your buyer's head, heart, hands and feet
Write what your buyer thinks, wants, does and is up against, in their own voice.
Purpose:: Tell the buyer's day without your product, then the same day with it.
Steps::
- 1. Use the hands as the journey
- 2. Add the struggle from head and feet
- 3. Write without-you in 3 sentences
- 4. Flip each sentence: same moment, now it goes well because of what you sell
Write the day without you and with you
Tell your buyer's journey twice in their own voice: once painful, once easy.
Purpose:: List the pains your buyer must get through, then flip every pain into its exact opposite.
Steps::
- 1. Walk through without-you one moment at a time
- 2. Write each pain or challenge you see
- 3. Keep 8-12, most painful first
- 4. Flip each pain into its opposite, in the same order
List pains and flip them into opportunities
Walk the without-you journey for every pain, then flip each one 180 degrees.
Purpose:: Pick the one main pain, then flip it into the main opportunity.
Steps::
- 1. Read the pains
- 2. Pick the one that hurts most and your idea solves
- 3. Say it in the buyer's words
- 4. Write its opposite as a goal the buyer reaches
Pick the main pain and main opportunity
Choose the one pain you solve best and flip it into the goal your buyer reaches.
Purpose:: Name your big advantage: why the buyer wins with you.
Steps::
- 1. Read with-you: what is new for the buyer
- 2. Read without-you: the old way
- 3. Write: <new way> instead of <old way>
- 4. Reply with that one line
Name your big advantage
Say why the buyer wins with you, as "new way instead of old way".
Purpose:: Say the product idea in one plain line.
Steps::
- 1. Start from what you sell
- 2. Make it deliver the opportunity and the big advantage
- 3. Name the thing and what it holds or does
- 4. Reply with that one line
Say the product idea in one line
Name what the product is, so plainly that someone could build it from the line.
Purpose:: Invent the product name.
Steps::
- 1. Write 5 names: a joined word, a short verb, a twist on the idea, a keyword with a letter changed
- 2. Drop any that are a known brand
- 3. Check which exact .com is free; respell taken favourites and check again
- 4. Keep the one that sounds best as a .com
Invent a product name
One fresh word that is easy to say, easy to spell and sounds like a brand.
Purpose:: Find brand names whose exact .com is free and clearly tied to what people search for.
Steps::
- 1. Write down the service and its search terms
- 2. Brainstorm 30+ short names from those keywords
- 3. Check them in bulk; respell taken favourites and check again
- 4. Rank the free ones on shortness, sound and keyword link
Find brand names with a free .com
Brainstorm short names around your search terms and keep only the ones whose exact .com is free.
Purpose:: Write the brand narrative: the short story of why the product exists.
Steps::
- 1. Sentence 1: a truth about the buyer's world
- 2. Sentence 2: what goes wrong (the main pain)
- 3. Sentence 3: the product name and what changes (the big advantage)
- 4. Read it out loud; cut what you stumble on
Write a brand narrative
Three sentences that tell why your product exists: the world, the problem, the fix.
Purpose:: Write the baseline: the brand tagline.
Steps::
- 1. Read the narrative and the big advantage
- 2. Write 10 short commands or promises
- 3. Keep the one you could say in one breath and remember tomorrow
- 4. Reply with the tagline only
Write a tagline
A 2-5 word command or promise that works under your logo.
Purpose:: Pick one success metric that proves users get value.
Steps::
- 1. Name the moment a user gets value from the product
- 2. Name the action you can count at that moment
- 3. Check you can log it in the product
- 4. Reply as: amount of <action>
Choose one success metric
Pick the one countable action that proves users get value, not visits or signups.
Purpose:: Write the main call to action: the button text on the site.
Steps::
- 1. Name the first step a buyer takes
- 2. Say it as a button
- 3. Swap any risky word (buy, subscribe) for a safe one
- 4. Reply with the button text only
Write the main CTA
The 2-4 word button text a buyer clicks without fear.
Purpose:: One image with 3 hero ideas for the home page, above the fold; the best one leads the whole brand.
Steps::
- 1. Read who the project is for and what it promises
- 2. Dream up 3 bold, unique directions
- 3. Make one tall image (9:16): the 3 heroes stacked, numbered 1-3
- 4. Look at it; redo any hero that looks like another
Draft three hero directions
One image with 3 bold, truly different above-the-fold ideas, then pick the one that leads the brand.
Purpose:: The best Google Fonts pair for this brand: one headline font, one paragraph font.
Steps::
- 1. Read who it is for, what it promises and how it should sound
- 2. Find the Google font that carries that voice in a headline
- 3. Pair a calm paragraph font; test both on a real sentence of your copy
- 4. Reply: Headline: <font>, Paragraph: <font>, Why: <one line>
Pick a Google font pair
One headline and one paragraph font from Google Fonts that carry your brand's voice.
Purpose:: 6 palette options for the brand, then the best one picked, like on coolors.co.
Steps::
- 1. Read the config and look at the picked hero
- 2. Make 6 palettes, one mood each
- 3. Check text on background contrast for each
- 4. Pick the one that fits the brand best
Build a color palette
Six palettes in six moods, five colors each, then the one that works on a real site.
Purpose:: One image with a 12x12 grid of logomark ideas: the inventory for your logo and favicon.
Steps::
- 1. Read the name, narrative and palette
- 2. Look at the picked hero
- 3. Make the 12x12 grid
- 4. Reply with the image, then the 3 strongest marks by row and column, one line each
Generate a logomark grid
A 12x12 grid of 144 mark ideas to pick your logo and favicon from.
Purpose:: Code the favicon as an SVG, drawn from the strongest mark you picked.
Steps::
- 1. Pick the mark that stays clear when tiny
- 2. Write it as favicon.svg
- 3. Write a check page: the svg at 16, 32, 64 and 256px on light and dark
- 4. Screenshot the check page and look at it
Code an SVG favicon
Draw the strongest mark as a clean 64x64 SVG that stays sharp at 16px.
Purpose:: One image with a 6x6 grid of logo options (mark + name).
Steps::
- 1. Look at the hero, the mark and the favicon
- 2. Generate the 6x6 logo grid (square)
- 3. Check the spelling in every cell
- 4. Reply with the image, then the best option by row and column and why
Explore logo options
A 6x6 grid of mark + name combinations to pick from or move forward with.
Purpose:: One 1200x630 OG image that could only belong to this brand.
Steps::
- 1. Read the config; look at the hero and logo
- 2. Make the image at exactly 1200x630
- 3. Shrink it to 300px wide and look again
- 4. Fix what is unreadable small
Make an OG image
One 1200x630 link preview that could only belong to your brand.
Purpose:: Code the logo and a first above-the-fold home page that carries the whole brand.
Steps::
- 1. Code logo.svg: the mark + the name in the headline font
- 2. Code home.html: nav with the logo, headline, sub line, CTA, one visual from the hero
- 3. Link favicon.svg as its icon
- 4. Screenshot at 1440x900 and look at it
Code a brand home page draft
One coded 1440x900 screen that carries the whole brand, rendered and fixed until it could ship.
Purpose:: Turn a product's purpose into a distinctive identity and an immediately understandable experience, with the craft and family coherence of Google's products.
Steps::
- 1. Frame: one sentence each for the user need, the promise and the feeling; name the primary object, action and hardest state
- 2. Explore: a few materially different concepts, each shown with real copy, type, palette, mark and one screen
- 3. Systemize: exact tokens, assets, component variants, tone and signature behaviour; one canonical definition per decision
- 4. Apply: build the real surface with real content; recompose for desktop and mobile
Design like Google
Turn a product's purpose into a distinctive identity and an instantly clear experience, with Google-level craft.
Purpose:: Find the problem worth building this week and the searches people type around it.
Steps::
- 1. Group pains and buyer words that mean the same thing
- 2. Keep groups backed by 2+ notes and relevant now or within 2 years
- 3. Pick the strongest pain; name it as a thing in a few words
- 4. Write the problem: <who> struggle to <job> because <reason>
Shortlist a problem worth building
Group research notes into pains, pick the strongest one, and list how people search for it.
Purpose:: Choose the search term to build for and show why it beat the rest.
Steps::
- 1. Get volume and cost per click for every term; score and sort
- 2. Top 3: read each 5-year trend as rising, steady, falling or spiky
- 3. Top 3: search each; note what ranks and where the gap is
- 4. Pick the winner, even if none is perfect
Pick the winning search term
Weigh volume, cost per click, 5-year trend and what already ranks, then pick one term and say why.
Purpose:: Find the 5 strongest products that already ARE your idea, and gather what they do, so you build with proof.
Steps::
- 1. Write Is (the product), Is not (what looks close but isn't) and Looks like (its homepage hero)
- 2. Search your idea + up to 4 terms; collect unique domains
- 3. Open each homepage; quote its hero line; keep it only if it fits Is and not Is not
- 4. Search "<best direct> alternatives"; check each new name the same way
Find your 5 direct competitors
Find the 5 strongest products that already are exactly what you want to become, with proof.
Purpose:: One table: each direct competitor's best feature, who it is best for, and its cons from real reviews.
Steps::
- 1. Per competitor: read the homepage; note its best feature and who it is for
- 2. Search "<domain> reviews" (the domain, not the brand name)
- 3. Read 1-2 review pages; note the cons people repeat
- 4. Reply with the table, one "Gap for us" line and one Sources line
Score competitors from real reviews
One table per market: each competitor's best feature, who it is for and its cons from real reviews.
Purpose:: Given a URL, sign up and walk the real journey to first use, as reviewed screenshots of every step.
Steps::
- 1. Capture the landing page; find the main signup CTA
- 2. Sign up; handle cookie banners and popups yourself
- 3. Complete onboarding with reasonable demo choices; note every choice
- 4. Do one real free first-use task; capture the result and any upgrade prompt
Capture a website's signup funnel
Walk a site as a new visitor from landing to first use and save every step as reviewed screenshots.
Purpose:: Turn a captured funnel into a sitemap: the funnel plus the 3-7 most important public pages it skipped.
Steps::
- 1. List each funnel step's URL
- 2. Read the sitemap; count URLs per first path segment; note sections the funnel never touched
- 3. Read the nav and footer: what the brand itself promotes
- 4. Rank the missing pages by impact on a new visitor; pick 3-7
Map a competitor's sitemap
Extend a captured funnel with the 3-7 public pages a visitor still deciding would open.
Purpose:: Know where your direct competitors live on social media: up to 3 profile URLs each.
Steps::
- 1. Per homepage: collect the social links
- 2. Open each profile once; note its followers (not shown: "?", ranked last)
- 3. Keep the 3 biggest per competitor
- 4. Reply: one line per profile: competitor · platform · followers · URL
Find your competitors' socials
Up to 3 company profile URLs per competitor, ranked by followers, taken only from their own site.
Purpose:: List the pages of the first website.
Steps::
- 1. Start with home, pricing
- 2. Add signup and signin if users get an account
- 3. Add the 1-3 pages where the idea and the success metric happen
- 4. Reply as one comma separated line
Plan a first sitemap
The 4-7 pages your first website needs, so every CTA and success metric has a page.
Purpose:: Lock the main inspiration URL: the live site your first website follows in structure and craft.
Steps::
- 1. Think of 3 famous products that sell something close to your idea
- 2. Open each; note how the home page puts the main action first
- 3. Keep the one with the clearest, most detailed home
- 4. Reply with its homepage URL and one line on what you take from it
Pick an inspiration website
Lock one famous, live product site whose structure your first website will follow.
Purpose:: Say in one concrete sentence why this project is a perfect fit for you.
Steps::
- 1. Read the project's purpose
- 2. Read what you are about and what you have
- 3. Find the overlap: what you already have that this project can offer
- 4. Write: we have <X> (evidence), so <project> offers <Y> to <buyer>
Prove the fit in one sentence
Say why this project is a perfect fit for you, with evidence of what you already have.
Purpose:: Build the perfect alternative to your direct competitors: their best parts plus what visitors in this space are used to.
Steps::
- 1. Per competitor: note the landing, pages and flow
- 2. List what they all share (traditional) and the best part of each
- 3. Build the header, footer and home, then the other public pages from that list
- 4. Deploy; screenshot desktop and mobile; compare with the competitor screenshots; fix
Build the best alternative frontend
Take the best part of each direct competitor plus what visitors in the space expect, and build it better.
Purpose:: Put your brand onto a built frontend without moving anything.
Steps::
- 1. Read the brand kit: fonts, colors, buttons
- 2. Set fonts and color variables once, globally
- 3. Add logo, favicon and OG image; set the site name and theme color
- 4. Replace every competitor name, color and image
Apply a brand to a built site
Swap colors, fonts, logos and images to your brand without moving a single block.
Purpose:: What you promised and what competitors basically offer all works, on the design as it is.
Steps::
- 1. List what must work: the fit sentence + the basics all competitors have
- 2. Wire login and payments
- 3. Build the core feature; its images go to the CDN
- 4. Every link, button and form works; dead links wired or removed
Make the site actually work
Wire login, payments, the core feature and every link, without touching the design.
Purpose:: Visitors sign in with Google on the project, live and local.
Steps::
- 1. Create a Web OAuth client named after the project
- 2. Add origins and redirect URIs: localhost, the host URL and the domain (+ www)
- 3. Save the client id and secret to your env file and the host; redeploy
- 4. Check /api/auth/providers lists google and the button opens Google, not redirect_uri_mismatch
Add Google sign-in
One OAuth client per project, redirect URIs for live and local, secrets only in env.
Purpose:: Visitors start free and can upgrade to a paid plan on your own checkout page.
Steps::
- 1. Pick the plans from competitor pricing
- 2. Create products and prices with plan_name and monthly_credits metadata
- 3. On signup: create the customer and put them on the free plan
- 4. Billing page: card form (Elements), subscribe, cancel, invoices
Add payments with your own checkout
A free plan plus paid tiers, paid on your own page with Stripe Elements, never a hosted checkout.
Purpose:: Project images load fast and cheap from a CDN; the app server serves zero image bytes.
Steps::
- 1. Create the storage and pull zone named after the project
- 2. Convert images to WebP (plus thumbnails if needed) and upload; skip files already there
- 3. Write a manifest JSON (url, size, thumb) the site reads
- 4. Allow the CDN host in the framework's image settings; turn off server optimizing
Serve images from a CDN
Compressed WebP copies on a CDN, originals kept, your app server serves zero image bytes.
Purpose:: Before you optimise, every standard is present on every public page.
Steps::
- 1. Turn the guide's rules and metrics into one checklist
- 2. Screenshot every public page, desktop and mobile; check each item
- 3. Add what is missing
- 4. Deploy; screenshot again and recheck
Quality control a site
Turn your design standards into one checklist and check every public page, desktop and mobile.
Purpose:: The project serves on its own .com: site on the host, images on the CDN, both https.
Steps::
- 1. If https://<domain> already serves this site, go to 5
- 2. Add <domain> and www (redirect) to the host project; read the A and CNAME values it asks for
- 3. Set DNS at the registrar: @ A, www CNAME, images CNAME to the CDN
- 4. CDN: add images.<domain>, load a free certificate, force SSL; repoint image URLs
Connect a custom domain
Point your .com at your host and your images subdomain at your CDN, both on https.
Purpose:: The six account emails, and who sends them, speak in the voice of your narrative.
Steps::
- 1. Read the narrative; decide who speaks and the one image they live in
- 2. Name the sender and the address after that speaker; verify the domain with your email provider
- 3. Per email, name what the reader feels then (joy, routine, doubt, leaving)
- 4. Write each: subject, greeting, the fact, one line in character, sign-off
Write account emails in your brand voice
Six account emails and a sender that speak in your narrative's voice: short, in character, never one-note.
Purpose:: Every public page scores 90+ on PageSpeed, mobile and desktop.
Steps::
- 1. Run it on home and each public page; note score, LCP, CLS and INP
- 2. Fix the biggest cause first: images (sizes, priority on the LCP image), fonts (self-hosted, swap), JS (drop unused client code), CLS (fixed sizes)
- 3. Deploy and run it again
- 4. Repeat up to 3 rounds
Get every page to 90+ on PageSpeed
Measure, fix only what the report blames, and repeat up to three rounds.
Purpose:: Google can find, index and measure the site.
Steps::
- 1. Get a verification token; add it as a TXT record; verify the domain property
- 2. Submit https://<domain>/sitemap.xml
- 3. Create a GA4 property and web stream; copy the G- id
- 4. Add the gtag to the site's root layout, loaded after the page is interactive
Set up Search Console and GA4
Verify the domain, submit the sitemap and add a GA4 stream, all by API.
Purpose:: https://<domain>/sitemap.xml is clean and every page in it is ready to rank.
Steps::
- 1. Fetch the sitemap; check the XML, URLs on the domain, lastmod
- 2. Remove non-indexable routes; add missing public pages
- 3. Check every URL's status, canonical, title and description; fix empty or duplicate ones
- 4. robots.txt allows / and points to the sitemap
Ship a clean sitemap
Only real public pages, every URL 200, self-canonical, with a unique title and description.
Purpose:: Write a skill file any agent can execute without guessing, in PRISM format.
Steps::
- 1. Write the purpose: the finished job in one sentence
- 2. Write 3-4 rules: quality bars and what is out of scope
- 3. List the inventory: only the files, tools and inputs the job needs
- 4. Write 3-8 steps a new agent can follow in order
Write a skill file in PRISM format
Purpose, Rules, Inventory, Steps, Metrics: the five parts that let any agent do the job without guessing.
Purpose:: Turn an outside workflow (a guide, a thread, a long prompt) into one PRISM skill file.
Steps::
- 1. Read the source once fully; name the one finished job it delivers
- 2. Split it if it delivers more than one job
- 3. Pull out the quality bars as Rules and the needed inputs as Inventory
- 4. Rewrite the method as 3-8 steps in plain words
Convert a workflow into a skill
Turn a published workflow, guide or long prompt into a short, self-contained PRISM skill file.
Purpose:: Align with the person before a complicated task, so the build is right the first time.
Steps::
- 1. Research how the task would be done
- 2. Ask 3 questions that make them think "ah yes, what about that?"
- 3. Process the answers; research again
- 4. Repeat until the open points are gone
Align before a big task
Research first, then ask short sharp questions in rounds until there is a clear green light.
Purpose:: Shape a loose idea together before anything is executed.
Steps::
- 1. Listen to the idea
- 2. Reply with compact suggestive bullets
- 3. Listen to what they pick up and what they drop
- 4. Refine toward the big picture they are after
Brainstorm before you build
Loose idea shaping: compact options and quick reframes, no hardwired solutions yet.
Purpose:: Be the first customer of a live product and report where it hurts.
Steps::
- 1. Choose one customer goal
- 2. Try discovery, signup, the core task, the result and a return visit
- 3. Note confusion, errors and time to value
- 4. Reply: pass, fail or blocked per step, evidence, and the top 3 fixes with repro steps
Be customer zero
Walk your own live product as a new customer and report friction with repro steps.
Purpose:: Turn outside opportunities into practical help for where you are now.
Steps::
- 1. Name your strongest asset and your current bottleneck
- 2. Search beyond your bubble: people, partners, communities, distribution, programmes, credits, funding
- 3. Pick up to 3 fresh leads: what each unlocks, why now, link, deadline, effort
- 4. Research the best lead further; prepare one concrete next move or draft
Find outside opportunities
Up to 3 timely leads (partners, programmes, credits, communities) that move your current work forward.
Purpose:: Check your government admin and say what needs doing, with dates and sources.
Steps::
- 1. Check current official deadlines and changes on the official sites
- 2. Check your own accounts for notices, payments, filings and messages
- 3. Per source: checked (date, scope), unavailable, or needs login
- 4. Extract exact dates, authority, action and link; check year and whether it applies to you
Check your official admin and deadlines
Check government portals and official sources, then show what is urgent and one next step.
Purpose:: Keep a busy inbox readable: every mail gets exactly one of 5 labels.
Steps::
- 1. Action: unpaid bill, deadline still ahead, account blocked; not login alerts, codes or past dates
- 2. Requests: you, or a real person writing to you
- 3. Signed up: sites you joined (trials, welcomes, drips, verifications)
- 4. Accounts: tools you run on (receipts, platform notices)
Sort an inbox into five labels
Every mail gets one of 5 labels, so only what needs you stays in the inbox.
Purpose:: Write one relatable 20-30 second video script for your audience.
Steps::
- 1. Pick a fresh angle the audience lives every week
- 2. Write the hook (see Write TikTok hooks)
- 3. Write the middle in 2-3 lines with one turn
- 4. End on the takeaway or punchline
Write a short video script
A relatable 20-30 second script with a funny hook and one takeaway, with animation cues inline.
Purpose:: Write 6-10 TikTok hooks that hold the first 3 seconds, each labelled by its archetype.
Steps::
- 1. Name the one payoff the viewer gets
- 2. Write one hook per archetype that fits
- 3. Say each out loud; cut anything over 2 seconds
- 4. Add the on-screen text and the opening shot
Write TikTok hooks
6-10 opening lines across different archetypes that survive the 3-second swipe.