Skills

Workflows your agent can run.

A skill is a markdown file an agent loads on demand: when to use it, the commands it runs, the shape of a good result. These ship inside the CLI package, so the version you install is the version your agent reads.cnotes skills list prints the same list.

• cnotes

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  Work with CreatorNotes via the cnotes CLI

  Reads and writes a CreatorNotes workspace through the `cnotes` CLI - typed, versioned notes, canvases, search, relationships, drafts, reviews and comments, focus plans and the timeline. Use when the user mentions CreatorNotes or cnotes, or wants to create, find, update, summarize, organize or lay out notes, canvases or transcripts in a CreatorNotes workspace. The wayfind, goal-tree, shaping, attention-planner, transcript-timeline and fat-marker-flows skills run their own workflows on top of this one; load them for decision maps, goal trees, shaping, attention triage, interview timelines, flow mockups and visual stories with recurring people.

  Installed by cnotes init into Claude Code. For Cursor or Codex: cnotes skills install with --agent.

• attention-planner

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  One open card at a time, loop closed by the agent

  Turn everything that arrived into either finished agent work or one answerable Attention card scheduled as a focus block, then close the loop when the human answers. Use when the user invokes /attention-planner, asks "what needs me today", "plan my attention", "protect a block for <thing>", "triage the digest", "triage this transcript", "what did I answer", "close the day", "close the week", or says they answered a card ("I filled ATTENTION-12"). Runs on the cnotes CLI and expects the cnotes skill to be installed.

  cnotes skills install attention-plannerCopy

• fat-marker-flows

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  Generate Shape Up fat-marker keyframes of a UI flow or a visual story, then lay them on a CreatorNotes canvas as a left-to-right filmstrip. Keeps characters, objects and cards the same across frames. Use when the user wants to see a proposed flow ("mock this up", "show me what it would look like", "fat-marker / broad-strokes sketch", "fat marker mockup", "keyframes", "storyboard the flow", "user journey on the canvas"), or when characters stay the same, they ask for a visual story, or a storyboard with recurring people.

  cnotes skills install fat-marker-flowsCopy

• goal-tree

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  Chart and work goal trees whose state is derived from "Done when

  Break an outcome into a tree of Goal notes on CreatorNotes, each finished when its "Done when" sentence is true, then work it one frontier goal at a time with no status fields. Use when the user invokes /goal-tree, asks for a goal tree, a dependency tree of goals or outcomes, "what is done and what is next" across several boards, wants to break a big goal into sub-goals, or points you at an existing goal tree to continue ("work the tree", "what can start now").

  cnotes skills install goal-treeCopy

• howto-filmstrips

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  Capture a real product UI how-to as a horizontal filmstrip on a CreatorNotes canvas: live CSS highlight on the click target, soft radial spotlight, then screenshot → upload → one walkthrough note → place. Use when the user wants a screenshot storyboard, click-path how-to, JTBD walkthrough, multi-path UI guide, or "show me how to do X in the app" with accurate click markers. Sketched frames, a visual story, or a storyboard with recurring people belong to fat-marker-flows.

  cnotes skills install howto-filmstripsCopy

• shaping

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  Shape work on a canvas - requirements, shapes, fit check, slices

  Shape a piece of work on a CreatorNotes canvas before anyone builds it - frame the problem, negotiate requirements, sketch rival shapes, run a fit check, pick one, then cut it into vertical slices a coding agent can plan from. Use when the user invokes /shaping, says "shape this", "let's shape", asks for requirements and options, a fit check, a breadboard, or vertical slices (V1, V2), or points you at an existing shaping canvas to continue ("where are we on the shaping", "slice it").

  cnotes skills install shapingCopy

• teach-workspace

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  Multi-session courses taught from cited workspace notes

  Teach one person a body of work over many sessions, from the workspace's own notes, as a course canvas in CreatorNotes. It interviews for the learner's mission, checks what they already know, teaches one short cited lesson per session, drills it in the chat, and keeps learning records that choose the next lesson. Use when the user invokes /teach-workspace, says "teach me this canvas", "get me up to speed on <area>", "onboard me to <project>", "next lesson", or points you at an existing course canvas. Also teaches an outside topic (a framework, a language) from vetted sources.

  cnotes skills install teach-workspaceCopy

• transcript-timeline

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  One interview, themes as rows, quotes on a timeline

  Turn one interview transcript note into a themed timeline canvas, one row per theme, every extract a card placed at its timestamp and quoting the speaker verbatim with a link back to the source line. Use when the user invokes /transcript-timeline, says "map this interview", "timeline this transcript", "build a transcript timeline", "lay this call out over time", or names a TRANSCRIPT-N and asks to see what was said when. Triaging a transcript into work and attention ("triage this transcript") belongs to attention-planner, not this skill. Runs on the cnotes CLI and expects the cnotes skill to be installed.

  cnotes skills install transcript-timelineCopy

• wayfind

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  Chart and work multi-session decision maps on a canvas

  Plan a big foggy chunk of work — more than one agent session can hold — as a decision map on a CreatorNotes canvas, then resolve it one Question per session until the way to the destination is clear. Use when the user invokes /wayfind, says "wayfind this" or "chart a map", asks to plan something too large or uncertain for one session, or points you at an existing wayfind map to continue ("work the map", "take the next ticket").

  cnotes skills install wayfindCopy

--agent claude, codex, cursor or all picks where a skill installs. Without it the CLI detects which agents are present.