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Skill: personal AI system builder

A zero-install tool for Chapter 6, "The Human as a System." It runs in your browser and sends no data anywhere. Code license: MIT.

Your harness is the system around AI that shapes the result. The model is the engine, not the whole car. This tool checks seven layers of your personal system (Thinking / Knowledge / Tools / Proof / Trust / Outcome / Skills) and finds the weakest link, so you strengthen that layer instead of polishing one that already works.

Open the tool

What it does

  • You score each layer from 1 to 3 (missing / inconsistent / systematic).
  • The tool calculates a total out of 21, shows the layers, and selects the weakest link.
  • It suggests one move for that layer and a review date one quarter later. You can copy the result.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool and score all seven layers using your real tasks from the week.
  2. Work on one layer this quarter. A chain depends on its weakest link, and spreading effort will not repair it.
  3. You can tell an AI assistant: "Here is a snapshot of my personal AI system and its weakest link. Help me create a specific plan for that layer and proof that I fixed it." Ask for options and weak spots.

Discipline

A score of 3 means "works systematically every time," not "works sometimes." Another person's behavior is evidence for the Trust layer, such as accepting your work without checking it again. Your own feeling is not enough. Choose one layer per quarter, not all seven.

Chat version if you cannot use the browser tool

Copy this prompt into any AI chat, then describe your tasks.

Assess my personal AI system, meaning the system around AI that determines my result. It has seven
layers: 1) Thinking, I think with AI without losing the skill; 2) Knowledge, a personal knowledge base;
3) Tools, each tool has a clear role; 4) Proof, public artifacts of my work; 5) Trust, a reputation for
quality and verification; 6) Outcome, a link between my work and a real result; 7) Skills, repeatable
ways of working, such as templates or skills with clear limits.

Here are 2-3 real tasks from my week: [describe the tasks]

Score each layer as 1 (missing or accidental), 2 (present but inconsistent), or 3 (systematic). Add the
score out of 21. Find the weakest link, not the strongest one, and give me ONE specific move for this
quarter that addresses it. Explain how I will check in three months whether I fixed it. Do not give me
seven suggestions.

Source worksheet: Personal AI System Builder. Tool map: Tools by Layer. Other tools: Prompts and Skills. Version: 2026-07.

Skill: personal AI system builder