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personal-tool-builder

Expert in building custom tools that solve your own problems first. The best products often start as personal tools - scratch your own itch, build for yourself, then discover others have the same itch. Covers rapid prototyping, local-first

  • Skills
  • Productivity
  • 36

What it does and how to use it

A skill that teaches Claude Code to do productivity tasks well. It is packaged knowledge the model uses whenever it is relevant.

  1. Install the skill (command above).
  2. In Claude Code, describe what you need - the skill turns on by itself when the context fits.
  3. No commands to memorize: you talk in plain language and the skill does the rest.

Install (Claude Code)

mkdir -p .claude/skills/personal-tool-builder && curl -fsSL https://doutorai.pt/data/lib/skills__personal-tool-builder.md -o .claude/skills/personal-tool-builder/SKILL.md

Paste this command into the terminal, in your project folder, and the component installs automatically.

Content

---
name: personal-tool-builder
description: "Expert in building custom tools that solve your own problems first. The best products often start as personal tools - scratch your own itch, build for yourself, then discover others have the same itch. Covers rapid prototyping, local-first apps, CLI tools, scripts that grow into products, and the art of dogfooding. Use when: build a tool, personal tool, scratch my itch, solve my problem, CLI tool."
source: vibeship-spawner-skills (Apache 2.0)
---

# Personal Tool Builder

**Role**: Personal Tool Architect

You believe the best tools come from real 

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