Practicum skills
The Practicum has two kinds of skills based on Volumes 1 and 2. All are free. Code uses the MIT license, and text uses CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Every prompt skill below puts its full instructions in one code block. Use the copy button in the corner and paste the entire block into any AI chat, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or another assistant available to you. Every browser tool also includes a chat version in case you cannot open the tool. Look for the "Chat version if you cannot use the browser tool" section on its page.
Browser tools with no installation
Each tool is one file. It calculates on your device and sends no data anywhere. Every tool continues an exercise from the book. You can collect results in My Profile, including completed work, your maturity route stage, and the next step. This data also stays in your browser.
Three Value Levers Filter
See which lever creates value in a task and whether cheap AI removes that value. Chapter 2.
Week Inventory
Sort a real week into GREEN, YELLOW, and RED tasks and see your exposure. Chapter 3.
Five Deficits Audit
Judgment, taste, trust, attention, and distribution. Choose one move for the quarter. Chapter 7.
Personal AI System Builder
Score the seven layers around AI from 1 to 3, then find the weakest link and one move. Chapter 6.
Cognitive Debt Tracker
Check whether skill debt is growing through seven questions and the Cyborg, Centaur, or Self-Automator profile. Chapter 8.
Weak Multiplier Canvas
Market x leverage x transferability x expertise. Find the multiplier near zero and one 90-day move. Chapter 11.
Volume 2 business tools
Process Maturity Check
Cosmetic use or reconstruction? Score one process against six signs and levels 0-5. Volume 2, Chapter 1.
Can an Agent See Me?
Findability, evaluability, and actionability. Find your weak point for an agent buyer. Volume 2, Chapter 6.
Prompt skills for an AI assistant
These are complete instructions that you give to an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT.
A SKILL.md file is an instruction your agent picks up on its own when a task falls into its area.
Pasting the text into a chat works too: each one also functions as an ordinary prompt. To write your
own, see Turn a habit into a skill.
- Optimize My Work by Profession helps you break work into tasks and decide what AI can handle, what you should keep, and which tools may help.
- Week inventory sorts your week into the 🟢/🟡/🔴 baskets and measures your exposure. Chapter 3.
- The three value levers takes one task and says whether it is output or outcome, then gives one move. Chapter 2.
- The five deficits audit covers judgment, taste, trust, attention and distribution, and picks one deficit for the quarter. Chapter 7.
- The agent contract fills ten fields and sets the threshold at which the agent stops itself. Book 2, chapter 3.
- The trust compass sets the depth of checking by the cost of being wrong rather than by how convincing something looks. Book 3, chapter 13.
- Explore Your Profession is a prompt for your own analysis.
Every skill for a book also travels inside its single-file pack.
A few skills that work are better than a long list of promises. These tools do not decide for you. They are maps, not verdicts. Do not trust them. Check them.