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WinterDDo/paul-graham-skills

Paul Graham, distilled — 5 Claude Code skills + 6 principles from his essays

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A balanced, no-drama setup: some rules, some tools, nothing extreme.
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# review before running: this installs third-party code
$ npx degit WinterDDo/paul-graham-skills/skills ./rig-paul-graham-skills/skills

MCP servers are added to Claude Code at local scope; env vars are shown as YOUR_… placeholders — we never store values. Files are fetched with degit into a separate folder so you can review before merging.

$ npx degit WinterDDo/paul-graham-skills/skills/change-method-not-goal .claude/skills/change-method-not-goal
$ npx degit WinterDDo/paul-graham-skills/skills/discover-not-persuade .claude/skills/discover-not-persuade
$ npx degit WinterDDo/paul-graham-skills/skills/distrust-the-surface .claude/skills/distrust-the-surface
$ npx degit WinterDDo/paul-graham-skills/skills/mark-what-you-dont-know .claude/skills/mark-what-you-dont-know
$ npx degit WinterDDo/paul-graham-skills/skills/plain-output-not-polished .claude/skills/plain-output-not-polished

This rig commits no guardrails. Here is the community baseline instead — the deny/ask rules most often found across all 6,974 rigs:

{
  "permissions": {
    "deny": [
      "Read(./.env)",
      "Read(**/.env)",
      "Read(~/.ssh/**)",
      "Bash(rm -rf *)",
      "Read(**/*.pem)",
      "Bash(rm -rf /)",
      "Bash(git push --force:*)",
      "Bash(sudo *)",
      "Read(~/.aws/**)",
      "Bash(rm -rf /*)",
      "Read(./.env.*)",
      "Read(.env)",
      "Bash(git push --force*)",
      "Bash(rm -rf:*)",
      "Read(**/.env.*)",
      "Read(**/*.key)",
      "Bash(sudo:*)",
      "Bash(git reset --hard*)",
      "Bash(git reset --hard:*)",
      "Read(.env.*)"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "Bash(git push:*)",
      "Bash(git push *)",
      "Bash(git commit:*)",
      "Bash(rm *)",
      "Bash(rm:*)",
      "Bash(npm publish:*)",
      "Bash(wget *)",
      "Bash(git rebase *)",
      "Bash(gh pr merge *)",
      "Bash(git commit *)"
    ]
  }
}

Skills (5)

change-method-not-goaldiscover-not-persuadedistrust-the-surfacemark-what-you-dont-knowplain-output-not-polished

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