Maclaine’s Maps

Agent skill

Load the four beats into any coding agent.

A free agent skill so Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and peers stop giving generic help and start practicing map · ideal · gap · path — with a required output contract, quality bars, domain adapters, and anti-patterns.

In one line: map what is present → name ideal and anti-ideal → stay with the gap → take one walkable step.

What supercharges the skill

  • Output contract — Map / Ideal / Anti-ideal / Gap / Path / Act today
  • Quality bars — each beat has a fail condition (no smuggled futures, no tip-lists as path)
  • Domain adapters — code, product, writing, systems, personal decisions
  • Progressive depth — optional references/ examples when the problem is large

Install

One-file install is enough. Folder install adds worked examples.

# raw skill
https://maclaine.ai/skills/maclaine-maps/SKILL.md
https://maclaine.ai/SKILL.md

# Claude Code (core + optional depth)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/maclaine-maps/references
curl -fsSL https://maclaine.ai/skills/maclaine-maps/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/maclaine-maps/SKILL.md
for f in examples.md build.md writing.md; do
  curl -fsSL "https://maclaine.ai/skills/maclaine-maps/references/$f" \
    -o ~/.claude/skills/maclaine-maps/references/$f
done

# Cursor
mkdir -p ~/.cursor/skills/maclaine-maps
curl -fsSL https://maclaine.ai/skills/maclaine-maps/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.cursor/skills/maclaine-maps/SKILL.md

# Codex / agents layout
mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills/maclaine-maps
curl -fsSL https://maclaine.ai/skills/maclaine-maps/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.agents/skills/maclaine-maps/SKILL.md

# Project-local
mkdir -p .claude/skills/maclaine-maps
curl -fsSL https://maclaine.ai/skills/maclaine-maps/SKILL.md \
  -o .claude/skills/maclaine-maps/SKILL.md

Grok and other tools: drop the plain Markdown wherever the tool keeps rules or skills. Restart the agent session after install.

What the four beats are

  1. Map — what is actually present (no preferred future).
  2. Ideal + anti-ideal — where to go, and what to stay the hell away from.
  3. Gap — where map and ideal refuse each other.
  4. Path — the single smallest step that changes the gap.

Open SKILL.md Portals Work

Human walk-through: The walk · Portals. Paid help on a live system: Work.

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