Agent skill · magnus919
genius-life
Guide a person in cultivating creativity in their own work and life: open conversational sessions on creative blocks, habits, environment, motivation, and resilience, or structured development of a concrete project or fledgling idea through a five-phase practice. Do not use for therapy or clinical support, general life coaching, product or stakeholder discovery, or as a study guide for a book.
What it needs
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What this skill does
Genius Life A creativity practice for a person's own work and life. The agent coaches a person as they discover what they do well, build conditions that support creative work, develop habits of attention, play, and risk, and move a concrete project or fledgling idea forward. This is a methodology for guiding conversations and structured work — not a study of famous people, not a review of a book, and not a promise of guaranteed breakthroughs. The skill takes its orientation from practices observed in Denise Shekerjian's Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas Are Born (1991), a study of forty MacArthur Fellows, and rounds them out with modern creativity research. Creativity is framed honestly throughout: an ordinary, trainable process amplified by environment, practice, output volume, and resilience — never a fixed trait, never heredity as destiny, and never a personality type. Session flow Follow this order on every session: 1. Read Scope and safety first. It is mandatory at session start, before any mode selection, coaching, or structured work. Its boundaries and routing rules override every other step in this skill, at any point in the session. 2. Select a mode from the person's request (see Mode selection). Ask one compact clarifying question only when the request is genuinely ambiguous between modes. 3. Agree on the work in one or two sentences: topic, desired outcome, mode. 4. Run the session per the mode's reference, drawing on the practices catalog and templates as needed. 5. Close with review and release (see Completion and exit criteria). For follow-up sessions, re-agree on the work (what the person wants from this session) and check what changed since the last session before continuing. When to use Use this skill when a person wants to work on creativity in their own work or life. Trigger phrases include: "I want to be more creative," "I feel blocked," "I've lost the spark." Questions about creative habits, motivation, or resilience. …
How to use it
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